Vote to create an "Ban/Unban Users" board

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Veralann·8/14/2016 in Community Voting

So once again, we have issues with chat bans (surprise). While the moderators can currently decide bans in chat unanimously, multiple administrators can overrule that, which is fine. Now the issue is, there's no way for the community to truly voice their opinion if they don't like an admin decision. Since chat bans can be decided by a group larger than the administrators, which also takes into account what other users in chat say, I propose we make a board, similar to the block/unblock board, but only for chat bans/unbans. It would follow the same rules as the other petition boards, going to the admins afterwards and forcing them to actually review the situation.

Should we create a "Ban/Unban Users" board?

Yes: 7 Votes

No: 16 Votes

Consensus

No.

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Michaelyoda·8/17/2016

HyperFlash Studios wrote:

Roddy15 wrote:

Brick425 wrote:

Roddy15 wrote:

Brick425 wrote:
I think we should. Admins should listen to the community more, so I feel we should submit the idea for a user to be banned if there's good support and see what happens. If it gets passed, the admins ban that user. If not, they don't.

This is just a bad idea. Doing this basically make admins pointless and the way this could be abused is just ridiculous. The community should not be the ones deciding who is banned and who isn't since that just opens it up to witch hunting.

It's already been pointed out a million times that petitions aren't binding contracts for admins. They don't have to listen. The reason I'm supporting is so we can have our voices heard by them, and at least have them consider something. I agree that if this did let the community decide, it might lead to witch hunting. But the community isn't deciding anything.

I know what a petition is...

My response is to your post in particular which is not what this vote is on but it seems to be something people agree with.

Your post suggests admins should ban a user if the community show a level of support for it. That idea completely undermines authority.

As for the petitions and this vote, I am against any move that lets the community have any say even on advisory level when it comes to problem users.

So the admins souldn't take into consideration what the community wants at all? They should just ignore the people who voted them in to their position and make any and all decisions without any external input? It just seems like you don't want anything to do with democracy or bureaucracy for the wiki. If that's the case, you have your opinions and we have ours.

Just because there's not a petition board, doesn't mean the staff don't have ears. As Roddy already mentioned, a ban/unban board like this just leads to smearing and rising tensions. If there's a legimate issue, present your evidence to the admins in private. I'm pretty sure they're nice enough to take the time to consider it. It's much calmer and cleaner doing it that way.

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T-007Bond·8/19/2016

B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

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KnightoftheLight·8/19/2016

T-007Bond wrote: B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

Dupes are not allowed, and we can tell who's a dupe. Anyways, users have to have been here a month to vote on community votes/petitions.

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Brick425·8/19/2016

T-007Bond wrote:
B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

Fun fact: You can't vote unless you've been here for a month at least. In other recent news, did you hear that the American Colonies might declare independence?

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T-007Bond·8/20/2016

Brick425 wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:
B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

Fun fact: You can't vote unless you've been here for a month at least. In other recent news, did you hear that the American Colonies might declare independence?

Well what if that dupe was disgusing as an original account and was discovered that it was a dupe this whole time? Also, I'm not an American and I'm not updated on American news.

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Veralann·8/20/2016

T-007Bond wrote:

Brick425 wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:
B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

Fun fact: You can't vote unless you've been here for a month at least. In other recent news, did you hear that the American Colonies might declare independence?

Well what if that dupe was disgusing as an original account and was discovered that it was a dupe this whole time? Also, I'm not an American and I'm not updated on American news.

Uh, you can't fake account age, and we have tools to find out what accounts are dupes and which aren't

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Michaelyoda·8/20/2016

HyperFlash Studios wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:

Brick425 wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:
B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

Fun fact: You can't vote unless you've been here for a month at least. In other recent news, did you hear that the American Colonies might declare independence?

Well what if that dupe was disgusing as an original account and was discovered that it was a dupe this whole time? Also, I'm not an American and I'm not updated on American news.

Uh, you can't fake account age, and we have tools to find out what accounts are dupes and which aren't

They have a very particular skillset.

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Herr keplers·8/20/2016

HyperFlash Studios wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:

Brick425 wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:
B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

Fun fact: You can't vote unless you've been here for a month at least. In other recent news, did you hear that the American Colonies might declare independence?

Well what if that dupe was disgusing as an original account and was discovered that it was a dupe this whole time? Also, I'm not an American and I'm not updated on American news.

Uh, you can't fake account age, and we have tools to find out what accounts are dupes and which aren't

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Actually, Hype, he has a fair point. You can't CU every new user, and I managed to hide behind User:MyNameIsNotBob for three months before being found out by accident. While I sincerely doubt and hope nobody is stupid enough to use a dupe for months to add one vote to something, it is certainly possible.

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Brick425·8/20/2016

T-007Bond wrote:

Brick425 wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:
B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

Fun fact: You can't vote unless you've been here for a month at least. In other recent news, did you hear that the American Colonies might declare independence?

Well what if that dupe was disgusing as an original account and was discovered that it was a dupe this whole time? Also, I'm not an American and I'm not updated on American news.

1. How would you disguise the age?

2. The American Colonies ceased to exist in 1776, which is the year they declared independence from Great Britain and became the US. The joke is that that happened so long ago, and I was using "recent news" as sarcasm because the rule about time being here before voting is also old.

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Michaelyoda·8/21/2016

Brick425 wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:

Brick425 wrote:

T-007Bond wrote:
B. What if these banned users created dupes to vote for their original accounts to get unbanned?

Fun fact: You can't vote unless you've been here for a month at least. In other recent news, did you hear that the American Colonies might declare independence?

Well what if that dupe was disgusing as an original account and was discovered that it was a dupe this whole time? Also, I'm not an American and I'm not updated on American news.

1. How would you disguise the age?

I'm saving this pic.

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