How difficult would it be to ban members from participating in individual threads, while leaving them free to post in other threads?
This idea is not new, it has effectively been placed on me for one particular member here (for which I thank the moderators, to be honest), though no actual software has been implemented. Would it be too hard for EM to add the feature to the site? Allowing moderators to ban individual members from individual threads?
Just a thought....
Matt
Sounds like a good feature, but would it be more appropriate for the OP to be able to perform this task?
I'm okay with it.... It will stop some bickering.....
Although I always maintain that this "Open Forum" has the ability for the opinions from everyone... Suppressing that is like the big brother syndrome.....
Some members here are very helpful in 99.9% of threads, and just one or two pop up that they lose themselves in and things get out of hand. Why ban them permanently for those one or two threads if they're perfectly reasonable and appropriate in all the others?
The proposal is to have a method for the OP to request to Moderation, that a member who is deliberately pulling his thread 'Off Topic', to be prevented from making further posts to that particular Thread.
Each request from an OP would be considered by Moderation before any action was taken to block another member from posting to that particular thread.
Eric
hi Matt,
No one has suggested a permanent Banning of a member for being Off Topic.
The proposal is to have a method for the OP to request to Moderation, that a member who is deliberately pulling his thread 'Off Topic', to be prevented from making further posts to that particular Thread.
Each request from an OP would be considered by Moderation before any action was taken to block another member from posting to that particular Thread.
Personally I would say the blocking option is a good idea after seeing how some members are using an OP's simple request for help on a specific Topic point, so that they can argue ad infinitum about some minute detail of the Topic.
Eric
It seemed to me that the original suggestion was to allow the OP to have more direct control over such exclusions. That is what I object to so strongly.
John
Isn't that what the "report post" button does? Has a member ever ignored a request by moderation not to participate in a thread?
Sounds like this change will solve a problem that doesn't exist.
It seemed to me that the original suggestion was to allow the OP to have more direct control over such exclusions. That is what I object to so strongly.
John
I agree that the OP should not be allowed to directly block a fellow member from a Thread, but request Moderation to do so.
Given that, what needs to be changed?
As for whether OP's (or anyone else for that matter) have asked for another member to be "barred," I think that is drawing too fine a line between objecting to a particular post and asking that it be removed versus "barring" the poster of such a post.
Is the dialog on this forum to be so perfect that a single transgression should result in barring, versus simply and more politely removing the offending post?
John
Given that, what needs to be changed?
Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.
Although there is now a very small difference in effect (i.e., warning the member vs. barring him from the thread), I would still prefer the warning as a first step.
Sorry, I apologize. In American English, "bar"(as an action) and "block" have much the same meaning.
John
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