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LPF is a large, growing, and diverse community.
Members continuously join, leave, and are on occasion banned.
The question of "What happened to member XYZ" often comes up.
The result is a thread usually pops up asking "What happened to XYS?"
Unfortunately the general forum membership does not have any way of knowing what happened when a member is banned.
The duration, and the reason for the ban are a mystery.
I would like to propose the the start, and maintenance of a simple, Drama free, Information Only, Closed Stickied Thread.
Criteria:
To reduce the burden the thread would only be for members with at least a three month tenure, and, or 100 posts. This would weed out, and eliminate the need to keep track of spammers, and blatant scammers.
Format:
Banned Members Thread
Current Date, Member Name, Ban End Date, Reason for ban, link to offending post or thread.
All of this information is available at a glance, and the reason for the ban, can be the same as given to the offender. Meaning nothing more than a simple copy/paste would be required.
It would be ideal if the existing mod team could maintain the thread.
If it cannot maybe a neutral member can be nominated to do so.
Please vote, and sound off below, about whether this would be beneficial to the forum.
Members continuously join, leave, and are on occasion banned.
The question of "What happened to member XYZ" often comes up.
The result is a thread usually pops up asking "What happened to XYS?"
Unfortunately the general forum membership does not have any way of knowing what happened when a member is banned.
The duration, and the reason for the ban are a mystery.
I would like to propose the the start, and maintenance of a simple, Drama free, Information Only, Closed Stickied Thread.
Criteria:
To reduce the burden the thread would only be for members with at least a three month tenure, and, or 100 posts. This would weed out, and eliminate the need to keep track of spammers, and blatant scammers.
Format:
Banned Members Thread
Current Date, Member Name, Ban End Date, Reason for ban, link to offending post or thread.
All of this information is available at a glance, and the reason for the ban, can be the same as given to the offender. Meaning nothing more than a simple copy/paste would be required.
It would be ideal if the existing mod team could maintain the thread.
If it cannot maybe a neutral member can be nominated to do so.
Please vote, and sound off below, about whether this would be beneficial to the forum.
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