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Kerrigan · Jul 31, 2005, 05:19 PM

A Banned Lounge should be created for people who are have been banned from the lounge, and also people with a high postcount (say 1000) should be allowed to post in it as well. Everyone else can only view but not post.

vinster · Jul 31, 2005, 05:36 PM

Can you explain to me why posters who have restrictions (banning) imposed on them because they've not obeyed the rules should be given an exclusive forum where they can post and those who've obeyed the rules can't?

ManOfSteal · Jul 31, 2005, 05:37 PM

Kerrigan · Jul 31, 2005, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by vinster

Can you explain to me why posters who have restrictions (banning) imposed on them because they've not obeyed the rules should be given an exclusive forum where they can post and those who've obeyed the rules can't?

Think of it as a jail, Vinster. In jail, people who have not obeyed the rules of society are locked away. Normal, law-abiding people are not allowed into the jail because they don't belong there. Of course, to maintain order, qualified people are brought in to maintain order and keep things going.

The Banned Forum would be like a prison, or a rehab center, where delinquent MacNNers go to pay their debt to the internet. And qualified people (those with high post counts) are allowed in to keep the forum interesting.

vinster · Jul 31, 2005, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Think of it as a jail, Vinster. In jail, people who have not obeyed the rules of society are locked away. Normal, law-abiding people are not allowed into the jail because they don't belong there. Of course, to maintain order, qualified people are brought in to maintain order and keep things going.

The Banned Forum would be like a prison, or a rehab center, where delinquent MacNNers go to pay their debt to the internet. And qualified people (those with high post counts) are allowed in to keep the forum interesting.

Kerrigan, this isn't real life. It's an Internet forum.

In real life, people go to jail because it's a way to keep them away from the society at large.

In an Internet forum, if registered users can't obey the rules they aren't allowed to participate.

budster101 · Jul 31, 2005, 06:13 PM

Call it.... the.....Pergatory Forum for those in limbo... asking for forgiveness from the Almighty Demonhood Ruller of the Lounge Realms.

Hey, if they do it, I'd want to be a Moderator, as I suggested it and would be responsible for it's creat..... oh never mind...

Chuckit · Jul 31, 2005, 06:21 PM

Only if we call it the Waste of Bannedwidth Lounge.

Kerrigan · Jul 31, 2005, 09:11 PM

And as an added bonus, advertisers would love displaying their banner along with thread after thread of Rob and Kevin's inflamatory nonsense.

iLikebeer · Jul 31, 2005, 09:35 PM

I always wished b.net would let me talk to other people in The Void. Can you be banned from the banned lounge or is it anything goes?

Randman · Jul 31, 2005, 10:13 PM

How about banned people start and finance their own forum?

Ω · Jul 31, 2005, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by Randman

How about banned people start and finance their own forum?

They just move to other forums. Just saw Zimpy at AI.

tooki · Jul 31, 2005, 10:35 PM

Yeah, um, no.

This forum isn't like the world. Think of it instead as a bar: it's a quasi-public, but decidedly privately-owned, place. At a bar, if you don't behave, they kick you out. This is the same.

tooki

Kerrigan · Jul 31, 2005, 11:00 PM

Righto then, commence lockination.

Athens · Aug 1, 2005, 01:33 AM

Originally Posted by tooki

Yeah, um, no.

This forum isn't like the world. Think of it instead as a bar: it's a quasi-public, but decidedly privately-owned, place. At a bar, if you don't behave, they kick you out. This is the same.

tooki

I dont know I think there is some merit to a banned lounge. All mods and those banned are the only ones that can see it. It allows them to argue there case why they shouldnt be banned and bicker about it with out distruption the other forums. Like what Zimph had to say but in the comments forums. Hidden to not affect other posters and new members.

turtle777 · Aug 1, 2005, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

A Banned Lounge should be created for people who are have been banned from the lounge, and also people with a high postcount (say 1000) should be allowed to post in it as well. Everyone else can only view but not post.

I'm glad you picked up my suggestion. I'm sure I would have been banned for this

-t

OreoCookie · Aug 1, 2005, 09:37 AM

So is being banned now a sign of quality and merit?

tooki · Aug 1, 2005, 10:21 AM

Hardly.

Again, you can all stop wasting your breath: there's not the slightest glimmer of a chance of anything remotely like this happening.

tooki

Chuckit · Aug 1, 2005, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Athens

I dont know I think there is some merit to a banned lounge. All mods and those banned are the only ones that can see it. It allows them to argue there case why they shouldnt be banned and bicker about it with out distruption the other forums. Like what Zimph had to say but in the comments forums. Hidden to not affect other posters and new members.

Like any mods would bother going in there even if there were one.

Seriously, though, where is the merit in the admins catering to the very people they want to get rid of?