Dave G, don’t take this the wrong way, but you need to lighten up.
Normally what happens when a fishing thread starts getting politically hijacked, moderators step in and delete posts and let it get back on track without locking things up. I think people here do a good job of moderating themselves.
And yes, many will attest to my maturity here.
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One way keep these people from highjacking fishing posts is to ban them for continually breaking the rules. If you have a better suggestion to stop these people from breaking the rules, then lets hear it.
Using the ban for behavior correction is a knee jerk reaction that rarely results in a positive outcome. The people that visit here aren’t children and telling them to go sit in the corner for an outburst or first time infraction is treating them like… a child.
IDO uses the ban when you’ve proven you cannot play well here with others. When you’re banned… you get one shot to come back and stay on the path while our fingers hover over the trigger. Nobody comes back from a second ban.
We prefer to send people an email or PM and attempt to talk with them about expectations versus using a ban as a first attempt at behavior adjustment.
This methodology must work well because we have very few people on the banned list and I doubt we delete more than a couple threads a week on average.
I agree with the ban thing. Won’t fix anything and most likely will cause hard feelings and more bad behavior. What I would like to see if possible….If I start a thread and it gets deleted or locked or whatever happens. It would be nice to get a note stating if it was the thread it’s self that caused the action or a reply. My thread last week I don’t believe stepped over the line. However since it got cyber dusted I don’t know who or why it happened.
Just a thought.
Keep up the good work.
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