A Warning serves two purposes. The first is, of course, to immediately* inform the violator they are misbehaving and to stop the misbehavior. The second purpose is to publically acknowledge the misbehavior so everyone else can see that the behavior is unacceptable and has been sanctioned. If the public element were not part of it, it could all be done by PM. That public part is a warning for everyone else in the thread, “Do not do this”.
And, as Colibri said, our terminology is a little off.
Think of it this way. A cop gives you a speeding ticket. You go to court. The judge sees that you’ve gotten 7 speeding tickets in the last month, he decides to revoke your license. There wasn’t another action by you between that ticket and the judge revoking your license, the ticket was for the immediate infraction and the revoking of the driver’s license was after evaluating the cummulative circumstances.
The Warning dropped in the thread is for the immediate infraction. That triggers the mods to do the background evaluation of cummulative circumstances, which can spawn further action.
Usually if the poster is a regular, been posting for a while, etc, then the results of those background discussions will involve a stepwise process of suspension, followed by another Warning that reminds the person they are on thin ice, and finally the last Warning that causes the ban. With the suspension and again with the ban, there will typically be a post in ATMB announcing the action and why.
If a poster is a spammer, sock, or troll, that process may be shortened.
Also they were obviously making shit up, whether that is due to insanity or trollishness or some other reason it’s not really helpful, especially about an emotive subject like 9/11.
[pedant]Marley and Alice have already addressed the um, silliness of this, but as a point of information the people disappearing in Argentina where overwhelmingly nothing to do with Juan Peron, who died in 1974. See here.[/pedant]
I was planning on using nipples as the attachment points. Not everyone has balls, and it’s so time consuming to find ovaries. Nearly everyone has nipples, though.
To go back to this: while I don’t really agree with your take on ‘obvious notice,’ you can always ask us why someone has been banned if you don’t see an announcement. We don’t announce certain types of bans (trolling, socking, or sometimes bans of very short-term posters), but you can ask us what happened and we’ll tell you. We just ask that people not start thread about posters who are banned without announcements.
