Should we be able to vote to ban other members?

[cphilip]

No problem nak81783. I think its an interesting question. Of course you are gettting sort of the response I suspected.

Relax. Breath my pasty friend!

[Additude]

nak81783,

I didn't take your post or your question offensively. I took it for what you said, just a question.

I only responded with what I felt was an answer with a reason.

No offense taken and I don't really think anyone else took offense to it either.

You didn't do anything wrong.

[slayer]

an interesting idea, and I understand where you are coming from but I think it is best to allow a moderator to initiate a ban. I don't quite think it would turn into a popularity contest (although who knows...maybe I would be the first to get voted out if that were the case). Also, is shartley a moderator or not?

[cphilip]

Shartley is not a Moderator. He did fill in as Temp Mod for a week at my request when all the others were at a tourney. I was Temp Administrator. So did Hitmanng. They both did a splendid job by the way.

I believe he is a Moderator on another PB site?

[shartley]

Also, is shartley a moderator or not?

[cphilip]

Felt like a month!

I stand corrected then...

[shartley]

LOL And the only reason I know this, is that my Wife reminded me the WHOLE time (so don't feel bad Phil, it WAS suppose to be just a week )... LOL Phil, you know what I am talking about... LOL

[davej946]

I'm getting in on this one late, but...

I don't think AO should allow members to vote to ban other members, however...

I DO think that the mods should post the IP's of the members they ban!

Later,

[cphilip]

Well no we are not going to do that...we do keep a list though. And everyone that is banned is notified. Some are just temporary for a few days.

We have had to premanently ban about 12 or so IP's. Some of those may be the same person on a different computer. Thats not many realy. Mostly good folks come here. And we try and talk you into retracting or conforming before we get hard on anyone. Very few of them are obvious from the get go.

[kickass68mag]

plain and simple

NO

[personman]

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no! I would be banned in a WITE second cause Im so annoying

[Webmaster]

For the record - users will never be able to "vote" someone off the forum. We have guidelines and rules and we try to enforce them to the best of our abilities. Even us as moderators dont get along with everyone on the forum very well - but it isn't "our" forum, its "everyones" forum. If we allowed the sort of "mob rule" you propose, the forum would fragment into cliches (sp) resulting in alot of politics. We would have people choosing sides on matters, ane eventually we would have people splinter off and create an "AO Sucks" forum of some sort.

So - if you someone annoys you or bothers you - just ignore them. There are people on the forum who dont contribute as much as others or act a little goofy - but its all part of having a big group of people in one place.

If you see people violating rules - feel free to report them to me or the mods.

thanks

[ben_JD]

I say, sure. Vote to your heart's content. Vote twice, thrice, as many times as you choose....

it just won't mean anything.

[danEboy]

I won't let you vote me off the island

[FutureMagOwner]

all i have to say is the moderators seem to have kept this place clean unlike the tippmann forum where everyone gets flamed for saying one thing and same with kingman except at kingman they dont care unless if its a guy saying tippmanns rule