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Originally Posted by cashman
what i don't understand is if yer having problems with a few *******, why didn't ya just ban em?  just asking. sorry mate just read a previous post. |
Oh Cashman, have you got a spare couple of days?
Another example (like I said I could write a book). One person practically begged to be a moderator and was a great member. I made them a moderator and then within a month they posted a virus warning as a joke (it was fake). Many members were outraged, and did not return. I had to de-mod the person. I later received an email from her boyfriend insisting that if she wasn't reinstated, their large network of friends and family would not go on the site any more. And that included the people of a pub that one of their family members owned. It was almost like a solicitors letter, but littered with terrible spelling and grammar...
Actually it was just like a solicitors letter.
Unfortunately it's not as black and white as just banning them. Sometimes penalizing one person is like alienating a membership of 20 or more. And it's usually those who push their luck because they believe they wield some kind of bargaining power. And after all's said and done it helps no one. They are banned so can't use the site, the site loses several members and the membership suffers because the site is less active.