# Can we adjust banning policy? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 30, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656 "2019-01-30T02:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/21 "2019-01-31T15:42:53Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > Also, can we as a community please stop calling for the ban if anyone, even assholes? Report posts, send pm’s to mods laying out your arguments for a ban if you must, but let’s please stop calling for the banning of individual posters. **Scenario:** I think \< **Imaginary, Made-up Poster** \> is a jerk. If I PM the mods & they don’t think so, then subsequent PMs from me just make me look like an off-my-rocker psycho with an agenda. However, if I publicly call for **IMuP** to be banned, & others agree then hopefully the mods will relook at their posts. We all have different viewpoints & biases. The mods are human, well mostly. :o They may not see or understand what I mean on first pass. > [@Alice's Restaurant](#): > > and if your in a Situation like that there’s only one thing you can do and that’s walk into The shrink wherever you are, just walk in say "Shrink, You can get Anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant. ". And walk out. You know, if One person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and > They won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, They may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in Singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an Organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said Fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and Walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/22 "2019-01-31T18:34:54Z")
We now have ten years worth of data from the Raffe about how likely it is that a troll will mend its ways. Troll shows up there, annoys the fuck outta people, gets Boxed permanently. Sometimes banninated but that’s rare. Troll then socks up and tries to put on a new schtick to keep trolling–and about 99.999999999% of the time goes through the exact same pattern. Lather, rinse, repeat. After a while a lot of us can identify a trock within a few posts because it’s actually a bitch to substantially change your writing voice. Lesson here is that TROLLS DON’T CHANGE. Let 'em stick around and they’ll drive off the fun and interesting people until you have nothing but a shit festooned wasteland with five or six emaciated trolls wandering around eating each other’s feces to stay alive. Yuck. Solution is simple enough though, either install a Box for the trolls to get confined to or stop being quite so anal about people socking it up and coming back for another run at it. Either method is perfectly valid and that way you don’t **melodramatic flailing gesture** LOSE THEIR VOICES AND IMPORTANT, VALUABLE INPUT FOREVERS ONOZ!!! Trolls gotta troll, just learn to corral them a bit better. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/23 "2019-01-31T18:37:16Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > We now have ten years worth of data from the Raffe about how likely it is that a troll will mend its ways. Troll shows up there, annoys the fuck outta people, gets Boxed permanently. Sometimes banninated but that’s rare. Rare = 10 maybe 15 or so actual trolls banned in the last 10 years. Filthy spammers don’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/24 "2019-01-31T22:22:01Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > and that way you don’t **melodramatic flailing gesture** LOSE THEIR VOICES AND IMPORTANT, VALUABLE INPUT FOREVERS ONOZ!!! If this is you restating, interpreting or summarizing my position, please know that I don’t appreciate the way you are doing it. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/25 "2019-02-01T01:11:19Z")
Yes, because it’s ALL about you and has nothing to do with the absolutely reliable as Swiss clockwork poutrage every time some asshole finally gets the banhammer. That makes perfect sense. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/26 "2019-02-01T01:21:08Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Yes, because it’s ALL about you okay but when you’re mockingly imitating someone it kind of IS about them. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/27 "2019-02-01T02:55:30Z")
Hey, he’s the one who thinks the characterization fits him, which means it’s squarely his problem and not mine. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/28 "2019-02-01T03:22:48Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > I really would like to make every effort to preserve some of the more unique voices . So, really, SmartAleq, it’s a stretch to think your post was referring to this? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/29 "2019-02-01T03:41:49Z")
> [@SmartAleq](#): > > Hey, he’s the one who thinks the characterization fits him, which means it’s squarely his problem and not mine. C’mon. That’s not how it works, and you know that. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/30 "2019-02-01T03:52:12Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > So, really, SmartAleq, it’s a stretch to think your post was referring to this? Yes. Everything is about you. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656/31 "2019-02-01T14:49:56Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > Also, can we as a community please stop calling for the ban if anyone, even assholes? Report posts, send pm’s to mods laying out your arguments for a ban if you must, but let’s please stop calling for the banning of individual posters. There certainly does seem to be an increase in this recently. It makes me very uncomfortable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-adjust-banning-policy/828656.md?page=1)