[I appreciate you and the team putting in the work to keep LW a good place, and don’t want to make it a thing where any mod action is met with “well you should have done this other more arduous thing”.]
Maybe there’s a “simple” fix that adds a “small” amount of moderator effort, and gives people like Bernd a bit more of a shot? The thing that comes to mind is: add an additional status between banned and and not banned, which is “restricted”. Then make a few “simple” changes to the behavior of restricted accounts. Maybe there’s one or a few that would direct better-suited behavior without further mod action. E.g.: restricted accounts can’t post comments greater than X thousand characters. E.g. restricted accounts can’t post more than X times in an hour.
[I appreciate your preamble. Thank you for the feedback and suggestion! Appreciated.]
We’ve actually just recently built “rate limits” for accounts as actually something in-between no action and banning. I have a draft post about our moderation philosoph and approach I want to get out in the next few days.
In this case I felt that it was better to skip the intermediary steps though, just going on experience with different types of users and likely outcomes.
[I appreciate you and the team putting in the work to keep LW a good place, and don’t want to make it a thing where any mod action is met with “well you should have done this other more arduous thing”.]
Maybe there’s a “simple” fix that adds a “small” amount of moderator effort, and gives people like Bernd a bit more of a shot? The thing that comes to mind is: add an additional status between banned and and not banned, which is “restricted”. Then make a few “simple” changes to the behavior of restricted accounts. Maybe there’s one or a few that would direct better-suited behavior without further mod action. E.g.: restricted accounts can’t post comments greater than X thousand characters. E.g. restricted accounts can’t post more than X times in an hour.
[I appreciate your preamble. Thank you for the feedback and suggestion! Appreciated.]
We’ve actually just recently built “rate limits” for accounts as actually something in-between no action and banning. I have a draft post about our moderation philosoph and approach I want to get out in the next few days.
In this case I felt that it was better to skip the intermediary steps though, just going on experience with different types of users and likely outcomes.