Is it better to ban someone from a message board..
 

... or just let the users "ignore" whoever they want?

Case by case basis.

Examples?

No... If the "rules" for banning are described too explicitly, then a dick can dance around just short of the cutoff saying "I'm not breaking the roooo-oools, you can't ban me!"

HM is right on. The rules are "don't be a dick" and the interpretation is up to UT.

The rules are "don't be a dick" and the interpretation is up to UT.

And the indivigual interpatation is up to the indivigual , UT is pretty alowing unless you are being extreme , then he will dump you like the load of shit you are !!!

On a private message board like this one, the persons who runs it gets to make his own rules. If you don't like them, no one is forcing you to hang around here.

Can we get a smilie for Dead Horse?

Are you inferring that I "don't like them"? Or is that the universal "you"?

who ARE we talking about, anyway?

No one. I was just wondering about people complaining about a user to the owner rather than just ignoring him/her. Why people would do that.

And then I started to think why have both, an ignore option for users to use, and also a banning system. Banning someone erases a user for everyone, when maybe everyone doesn't want that user gone.

I used to ask why do you need an ignore feature. But now I wonder, why ban when users can ignore?

I did expect people to respond with "If you don't like it, too bad." But that doesn't answer my theoretical questions.

It can be an attempt to modify the bad user's behavior.

^^^Edit Alert^^^

(@Steve: I knew what you meant)

Not if the complaints are "You should ban that person! I can't handle reading what he/she has written!"

It is only your PERCEPTION that I think you, personally, don't like the way things are done here.

By "you" I meant the entire world, K?

Oh, and BTW, I adore ME, and I'm not going to change my posting style to please ANYBODY because I am soooo perfect! And if you perceive this as a sly innuendo, well, all I can say is that I love EVERYONE, and I'm not responsible for anyone's PERCEPTIONS re my posts.

Thank you. :rolleyes: