Craig
TS Administrator
Meat Pie said:Perhaps also with an explanation as to why no expiration date has been posted where it is meant to be underneath the "You are banned" notification. If I've received a life-time ban, I think even most who feel this action was justified would consider that a tad over-the-top.
Craig - I take the point, but considering the Shoutbox had been dead at the point the discussion came into being and has recently been dead anyway, it certainly seems counter-intuitive to me to stifle conversation by putting sanctions upon those who are actually being active.
The ban should have had an expiration date, and this was an error with the shoutbox script. This has now been set to 7 days.
I don't believe we are stifling conversation, we are actually trying to encourage it by asking that any debates or serious discussion be taken to a proper topic. That way more people have the opportunity to get involved, rather than seeing discussion flow off the shoutbox due to multiple posts from just a few people.