Accounts are banned every day, most of them spammers or first-timers not worth a mention here. Just today a TERF who tried to de-rail the Quadball topic was banned.
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That just means no one whoâs been around a while has been banned or given a timeout. New user trolls get banned dozens of times a day, often so fast that most people never even see their posts.
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And here I thought we were doing better.
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âWeâ are. Trolls, not so much.
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Over time, the site has been doing better. The amount of time that our malicious but sneaky posters have been able to persist here has been steadily and consistently reduced over the years.
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The subtle language of exclusion: Identifying the Toxic Speech of Trans-exclusionary Radical Feminists
Perhaps of use.
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Weâre seeing so many problematic accounts popping up with 2013 - 2014 etc inception dates & no posting history.
Would it make sense to delete accounts that are inactive for over 2-3 years? They can always sign up again.
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If weâre considering that, we might want to do something about usernames- if youâre going to delete old user, letting someone else jump on the now vacant handle could be confusing.
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It seems like that would punish lurking, though.
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Sign up again & lurk?
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The number of accounts like this that have been deleted over the years is shocking. Some people were sure they wanted to make a lot of trouble over a long period. This hasnât been 5-10 but dozens upon dozens over years and years.
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Is that a point in favor of @KathyPartdeuxâs suggestion?
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That is a discourse-level user management thing. The software doesnât let that happen. I believe this is why Ken has had all accounts inactive for one year require a manual new password upon reactivation, but I believe many of these tick a log-in box frequently.
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If there is a user who joined some time ago but never posted they could still be using features like following topics that interest them. Or viewing new posts, etcâŚ
If those users are suddenly posting causing trouble, then in my opinion treat them like all users, flag posts and let the moderators sort it out.
I belong to many hobby forums, some of them I rarely post but do have a posting history and like to follow topics that interest me. I wouldnât be happy if I lost my following history because my account was removed because I didnât participate regularly. I also like logging in and seeing new posts since my last visit.
In this forum I donât even notice a posterâs join date and I rarely look at a posterâs profile.
Has there been a problem, I thought there was just a post talking about how there havenât been any poster bans in a while and most people were behaving. I havenât seen any disruptive posts in a while.
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Theyâre really invested in screwing with the very fine mutants who make our lovely community, arenât they?
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Ah, gotcha!
Thanks for the info!
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That corresponds to the date given in Wikipedia for the founding of the Russian Internet Research Agency. It would be consistent with the groupâs objectives.
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Bigot ar15gunner has been forcibly removed from the premises.
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With a username like that, and a profile name like his, who could have ever seen this coming.
Iâm kind of to the point where I think discourse should just allow people to permban based on user name / profile name, etc. Some people just tell you what they are on the tin.
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