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Demi-ban: screen all future comments from specific user
Title:
Demi-ban: screen all future comments from specific user
Area:
comments, comment screening
Summary:
Force-screen comments from one particular user, when it's just that user whose comments warrant screening.
Description:
Occasionally there is a user who may be commenting in a particular journal or community in such a way that they do not quite warrant a ban, but fully warrant review from the admins/owner just to make sure their comments are productive.
Everybody else is commenting all right, it's just that one person.
Setting [class that includes commenter] to have their comments screened (whether that class be everyone, non-Access/Members, or anonymous) would be overkill for this situation, because they haven't brought along friends, it's just them. Turning on screened comments tends to dampen discussion and can be a lot of work to unscreen.
A demi-ban which makes all that user's future comments screened, but leaves everybody else's alone, would solve this problem on a technical level.
On a social level, this person could then use another account to evade the demi-ban and not be subject to screening. That's something that is likely to be noticed, and then the admins/owner would have to decide how to handle it. (The admins/owner may well decide that it's time to actually ban both accounts.)
Evading a demi-ban should not be a ToS-able offense. Evading an actual ban still should be.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
67 (79.8%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (8.3%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)
(I have no opinion)
10 (11.9%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
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I have a couple of people on my journal who only like responding to my screened entries, because they're very sensitive about having other people reading their comments (for privacy reasons), especially if they want to share say a personal anecdote. I actually know people who would want to be voluntarily 'demi-banned' in order that all their comments could be screened unless they agreed otherwise.
Imho, the idea of being able to screen the comments of a particular user has a lot of applications, both in communities, and in people's journals, where sometimes even filtering stuff down still doesn't always make some people comfortable enough to comment where other people can see what they want to say.
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I hope I'd never need it, but it would be something I'd want as an option if I were setting to run something big and public facing.
How would it work for comms? Both single user comms and actual group comms.
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I like the term "selective screening" instead of "demi-ban;" that makes it obvious that it's not necessarily a punishment.
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