we are only allowed to report 1 per day???
If someone is an arse, we can all recognize that.
who is a rat?Rats, a dying breed.
Keep in mind that there are other reasons to report posts, such as finding duplicate posts, finding a post in the wrong section, flagging a violation of the rules, etc.
I have been seeing way too much neg repping and reporting to mods going on, IMHO.
To clear a few things up:
1) Yes, ALL Mods get an email with each Reported Post.
2) No, those who have been banned previously are not welcome back under different names. However, finding that person is not always easy or obvious. We only have so many options to keep a user banned, and even with the most stringent ways, it is still possible to get back if you know what you are doing.
Why is it that when people see someone breaking the rules here, they assume its because the Mods ALLOWED it?? We don't catch everything. In fact, what everyone doesn't see are the ones that we DO catch. I bet NO ONE knows about the banned user who has re-signed up under no less than 5 different names, but was re-banned each time after finding their true identity. You know why you don't know about it? Because we caught it and took care of it and don't tell everyone we did, because no one cares.
Thanks to the OP for reporting the post in question. We got your email and are working on a course of action.
I think it was fairly easy to discern why this particular one was banned, and if they are allowed to come back, why not just reinstate the old screen name?To expound on this a little bit, note that people get banned for different reasons and those reasons are rarely, if ever, made public knowledge. If they re-appear later on under a different name, it's possible that they were allowed to come back. Report them or don't as you see fit, but until you know the whole story you have to trust us to moderate the board.
I think it was fairly easy to discern why this particular one was banned, and if they are allowed to come back, why not just reinstate the old screen name?
10-4I wasn't referring to this particular incident. I was making a broad generalization.