Board Thread:Site Adminstration/@comment-5012038-20130607202258/@comment-9890645-20141014212803

Let's be brutally honest here.

How much longer do we expect TFL to be around? We are probably looking at a year or two at most.

I don't think I've ever banned someone for less than "indefinite." However, only once have I had to ban someone whose only posts were NOT advertising likely illegal sites and/or businesses, and it was for repeated harassment of members and an indifference to requests to ease up... and this was last year, when we had 100,000+ unique players in TFL. We're down to ~25k now, so those issues have largely gone by the wayside.

True story, I was a longtime regular member of a massive MtG forum (MTGSalvation, now owned by Curse) with a huge list of banned accounts. Right before signing over to Curse, they changed their "don't come back" ban policy to "well, you can plead your case." I followed the exploits of the users who were allowed back, and, surprise surprise, there was little to no change in their behavior upon their return. I recently dropped in over there and have found that banned users are being welcomed back in record numbers. It hasn't improved the site any, that's for sure.

I'm of the mindset that, if you don't want someone around, letting them back, ever, seems completely counterproductive. That being said, I'm not swift with the banhammer except in the obvious spamalicious cases.

Should things change, and this game has a resurgence (LOL)... We can always revisit these policies and maybe consider a system. We're a small enough group here where having a complex system and/or more severe modding will only make my life harder than it really needs to be. :D