Timeline for Should the post ban message be reworded?
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| Oct 27, 2018 at 10:20 | vote | accept | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | ||
| Feb 14, 2018 at 16:00 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Please see my edits to the question. I still think the message should be reworded, even after thinking about what you said (that in most cases, we just want them to leave the site after ignoring several warnings). | |
| Feb 14, 2018 at 15:27 | comment | added | Shog9 | That's not just possible, the rate-limit actually relaxes the longer you wait before trying to ask your next question, @Ano. You'll still get warned if your previous questions were dodgy though, even if you're not blocked. | |
| Feb 14, 2018 at 8:29 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | By the way, I thought of something new: isn't it possible that someone who hits the rate limit just doesn't think of asking a new question until after the rate limit has already expired, so they don't end up seeing the rate limit message? | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 3:10 | vote | accept | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | ||
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| Feb 8, 2018 at 20:10 | history | edited | ɥʇǝS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2018 at 18:16 | comment | added | Shog9 | Define "a lot". | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Um, don't we get a lot of questions about the ban applying to other accounts, since the message says it only applies to that account? Shouldn't it instead say "you", since that implies that it applies to the person, not the account? | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 17:15 | comment | added | Shog9 | As I implied, it exists for the minority of folks who are willing to work out of a ban, @shadow. Also reduces the number of ban questions on meta and support emails. | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 15:41 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @Shog while I somewhat agree with the general idea here, why bother in the first place and create that help center page? Just write directly "You're not welcome to post here anymore", no links, nothing, and be done with. No? | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 2:34 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Alright, just to be clear here: if this were phrased as a feature request, you would status-declined this? | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 1:59 | comment | added | Shog9 | Magic words are something folks chase after with a/b tests, combinatorial tests, endless iteration. If you're Facebook and willing to piss away millions literally just to mess with your own users, then you can probably do that sort of thing on messages only a tiny fraction of people see... Our time is better spent trying to find ways to catch folks before they ever get close to that message - by then, they're mostly lost anyway. | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 0:19 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Is there a good reason why this particular wording is the best, and that the ones I suggested are bad in some way? | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 0:15 | comment | added | Shog9 | As opposed to what, @sonic? Read the instructions? Like what didn't happen the last few times you were warned, temporarily blocked, warned again? | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 22:27 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | "Leave the site and never come back." Let's say that I join a site, and ask a few bad questions on it, and get banned. I then leave the site. Four months later, I have a rather important question to ask. I log in, but notice the ban message. What do I do? I think that my question is important, I need to ask it now, and as the ban message says it applies to my account I create a new one. | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 20:18 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Wouldn't "your ability to ask questions has been revoked" also carry the same connotation as the existing message, but not encourage sockpuppetry? | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 18:01 | history | answered | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |