08 Mar '07 22:57>
Originally posted by XanthosNZI really like the idea - people would get to see the work the mods do (currently they only tend to know about the removals/bans that people whinge about, and then from a biased POV), and see what people are banned for. For one, it'd stop people distorting the truth about why they were banned.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php
A link to the post in question (offending posts aren't deleted on SA except in a few cases), a link to the profile of the poster, a reason and the admin who processed the ban.
However, people are not always banned for 1 post alone, but rather a sequence of infractions - how would you like to every post that had lead to an eventual ban?
The down side is that posts that were considered unfit for general forums can simply be viewed elsewhere. Or is that a downside if the posts had been moved to a 'this is unacceptable' forum?