Ever since SDMB threads got indexed on Google, we’ve had more than a few incidents of zombie drive-by threadshitting (which constitutes three infractions/rule breaks at once, and makes for a pretty funny mental image, too!).
The most recent example that I noticed was this two-year-old thread in the Pit, in which a new member named victorvodka dropped in and necroposted, making what I’m sure he thought was a cute and witty remark. (In reality it was just unfunny misogyny.)
victorvodka has posted no replies yet to our criticisms of his newbie crassness. Nor has he posted anything else in the day since that zombie thread comment, so the jury’s still out on whether or not he will stick around and become a productive Doper, or whether he joined just to make one single stupid comment.
So here’s my question: If someone joins just to do a zombie drive-by threadshit, if s/he doesn’t post anything else thereafter in say, a week or a month, can the offender’s account just be deleted?
Truthfully, yeah. There’d be some real Schadenfreude in that for me.
But more practically: Maybe if we had a rule in the User Agreement to the effect that zombie drive-by threadshitting (hereafter referred to as ZDBTS, or “zidbots,” heh heh) were verboten, then it would discourage this sort of thing. Just a thought.
FYI: Google was indexing well before you joined up, Cyningablod. Early March of 2009.
Anyway, if some idiot post wouldn’t be enough to get anyone else banned I don’t see why we would ban a newbie over it. Certainly not for the sole reason that it happens to be a pet peeve of yours.
sigh I agree with this. Had I done that upon joining, I would have read the section about the goat and the octopus, and I would have been a lot more wary.
