Question on ban announcements

[Prince EWS]

Context is everything I guess.

What I took from Cribb's post is that it's ok to use question marks/to ask questions if you phrase your reports in a certain way. I.e. as a means of highlighting possible rule-breaking.

E.g. "This is surely not acceptable?" or "This is surely against the rules?"

But it's not ok to use it to attempt to enter a dialogue etc.

E.g. "Why was I given an infraction?", "Can I ask whether you have considered to my previous report?", or "What have you discussed in the mod forum about Sledger?" etc.

Just to be clear, asking questions in report messages isn't against the rules. However:
* We're definitely not ever going to answer the questions if you ask them.
* If you do it repeatedly, we may ask you to stop, and ignoring moderator instructions is against the rules.

It wasn't the only thing we asked him to change about his reports either -- he had suddenly started making a lot of them, and very few of them had report reasons like "hey I think this is breaking rule X" -- but it was the one that got him banned. Probably because I really didn't want to ban him for it (I just wanted him to stop doing it) and that instruction was the least subjective (ie. once he sent reports through with question marks I couldn't really do anything other than infract them).

 

[Burgey]

He reported every post I’ve made referencing Chennai, didn’t he?

 

[Shri]

The world doesn't revolve around you ****.

 

[Daemon]

It actually does, he's that old

 

[honestbharani]

The world doesn't revolve around you ****.

But glad to see CW's revolve around Chennai.

 

[Smudge]

But glad to see CW's revolve around Chennai.

You had a week to think of something, and you came up with that? Good grief.

 

[GIMH]

At least he didn’t quote everything from the last week tbf

 

[Burgey]

So sunilz's ban presumably means if you bait in an on-topic manner you'll be fine?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Can we bring back Windie for giggles?

 

[Daemon]

Can we bring back Windie for giggles?

Won’t be long now.

 

[Furball]

Can we bring back Windie for giggles?

I'd advocate a ban for this post.

 

[trundler]

How long did Cow cop

 

[Howe_zat]

Cribbage permabanned him for skill absolutism

 

[GoodAreasShane]

If ever anyone one has been in need of a permanent trip to the abattoir, it's him. Bloke is like anthrax on the whole forum atmosphere

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

A different breed of cow, that.

 

[smash84]

he's definitely not in the silly cow corner

what exactly did he get banned for this time around?

 

[trundler]

Made a frankly disgusting personal insult towards a member. Dude had the social skills of a toddler.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

he's definitely not in the silly cow corner

what exactly did he get banned for this time around?

Definitely, not...he's an Indonesian cow. And Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world. So I assume he is on someone's plate by now.

 

[trundler]

Wait do you not eat beef in Guyana?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Wait do you not eat beef in Guyana?

Yes, but it's like 7.1% out of a population of ~800,000