Banning: One moderator's perspective

[Yankee23]

This is my opinion only

First off banning is not good business, you are always looking for expansion not downsizing but sometimes there is unfortuantely no other alternative

Let's hypothetically say I own a bar. Welll who do I want in my bar? People who like to drink and spend money.

If I have a customer that stops in daily and drops $20 bucks he is the ideal customer. The last thing I want to do is ban him from coming into my establishment and dropping a hundered bucks a week.

But when that customer becomes obnoxious and a distraction to the other patrons of my bar that is a problem and in turn hurts my business. This stops the other patrons from having a good time and also prevents new customers from frequenting my establishment.

The same analogy can be applied to Cappers Mall and unfortunately a few long time members have recently recieved bannings.

Do we want to ban? NO....but if it helps keep the peace of the rest of the forum it makes our decision that much easier.

P.S. If anyone wants to flame away have at it

[secondbase]

can't see where anyone would flame your thoughts there Yank

[Yankee23]

Originally Posted by secondbase

can't see where anyone would flame your thoughts there Yank

Because some people always feel the need to flame no matter the situation 2B

[seano1]

i have been a c mall user for (see date above) and since the start of the new

year i have never seen so many bannings. some guy got banned lastnite for

calling out records. last week a bunch of guy's called out a guy and that guy

quit. maybe im missing something. and if u own a bar u pull the drunk aside

and say maybe u've had to much tonite let me get u a cab and we'll see you

2morow. until u have to do it every nite of course. i dont think that guy shoulda

got banned. once again maybe im missing something.

[Gobbler's Knob]

The bar analogy is a good one, see it happen all the time being in a pool league and visiting many different bars. One guy got banned from our home bar last week, guy spent a lot of money every week and was for the most part a pretty good guy but when he drank too much he became a major problem. So the bad outweighed the good and ............he gone.

[Yankee23]

Originally Posted by seano1

i have been a c mall user for (see date above) and since the start of the new

year i have never seen so many bannings. some guy got banned lastnite for

calling out records. last week a bunch of guy's called out a guy and that guy

quit. maybe im missing something. and if u own a bar u pull the drunk aside

and say maybe u've had to much tonite let me get u a cab and we'll see you

2morow. until u have to do it every nite of course. i dont think that guy shoulda

got banned. once again maybe im missing something.

None of the members that were banned were banned without being previous warned

[Double Down]

Originally Posted by seano1

i have been a c mall user for (see date above) and since the start of the new

year i have never seen so many bannings. some guy got banned lastnite for

calling out records. last week a bunch of guy's called out a guy and that guy

quit. maybe im missing something. and if u own a bar u pull the drunk aside

and say maybe u've had to much tonite let me get u a cab and we'll see you

2morow. until u have to do it every nite of course. i dont think that guy shoulda

got banned. once again maybe im missing something.

think you missed several threads that were deleted!!! could careless if people are banned but that guy last night has been asking for it imo

[TrailerParkBoys]

Fine line to walk. There's a lot of forums in forumville and the only thing that separates this place from others is being a "high road" forum with heavier moderation. (certainly not the rewards, that's been done elsewhere) That being said the drama at less moderated places is a lot more entertaining if you like that sort of thing. To each his own.

[seano1]

not to pry but were they warned for calling out records?

[upinya83]

Originally Posted by Double Down

think you missed several threads that were deleted!!! could careless if people are banned but that guy last night has been asking for it imo

Had the double down sandwich from KFC last night - 8/10

[seano1]

Originally Posted by Double Down

think you missed several threads that were deleted!!! could careless if people are banned but that guy last night has been asking for it imo

prolly.

[Double Down]

Originally Posted by seano1

not to pry but were they warned for calling out records?

think it was the iq thread plus nba thread on top of everything else! guy was on a mission

[Chris46139]

Originally Posted by upinya83

Had the double down sandwich from KFC last night - 8/10

Hey look at this guy, thought you got banned too, guy is too good for us this week

[upinya83]

Originally Posted by Chris46139

Hey look at this guy, thought you got banned too, guy is too good for us this week

yeah sorry, been really busy all week this week - i'll be on today to watch my team wrap up a 2-0 fantasy week

[Double Down]

Originally Posted by upinya83

Had the double down sandwich from KFC last night - 8/10

heart attack waiting to happen.. tastes good though