Timeline for Please adjust the question auto-block criteria (and allow mods to countermand blocks)
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| Jun 6, 2015 at 12:59 | comment | added | Oli | Sorry but a permanent record is kept and is available to moderators in the user history screen. And I didn't mean to lecture, but you were blaming the user for posting objectively fine posts in an unpopular topic. I honestly don't want to come across as combative here but the system is scaring users who aren't doing anything wrong. That this whole scoring process is secret (even to moderators) makes this all the more infuriating. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 11:47 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | Also, at the time of the warning, it's not necessary to fix the old posts. As you note, that isn't always possible. Hence the warning. If the user's next post or two are well received (they get some votes or answers, aren't closed, and so on) everything will be fine. That's the whole point of the warning. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 11:45 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | No record is kept of the warning being issued. That by definition means it is not a black mark. It is not possible to look back and see that a user was once warned. Please stop stating the opposite of simple facts. Also, you cannot know that the user will be blocked, none of us do, because it is an automatic process with secret details. The warning is set to be more sensitive than the block, in all likelihood. And finally don't lecture me about site audience please. I have accounts on 40 sites. I do know about small sites. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 9:58 | comment | added | Oli | I disagree with the second half of your answer. This is a black mark and this user will be blocked if they carry on doing nothing wrong. The criteria is the same and they can't fix their old posts (as highlighted in the question). And on "fault", there is an external force: topic popularity. You've been on broad-topic sites like SO, so you'll know some subjects just don't have the same number of people on them as others. Ask Ubuntu is a big site with a lot of topics, some clearly more popular than others. That isn't indicative of quality. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 13:10 | history | answered | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 3.0 |