We feel that transparency and accountability in moderation is a more important issue than ever in today’s online world. Our moderators are your allies – not enemies – and we wanted an additional system of checks and balances in place to make sure it stays that way going forward. Over the past few weeks, we’ve taken a look at some of the long-standing policies on NeoGAF and have decided it was time to implement additional transparency measures that users have been requesting.
Therefore we are happy to announce a new feature – the ability to see a history of the users that have been banned from the site, either temporary or permanent.
https://www.neogaf.com/bans/
This page will show a list of bans that have occurred on the site and is updated in real time. It will provide information about the user, a link to the post that resulted in the moderator action (if applicable), as well as the timing of the ban and the reason. A link to this page will be placed in the site footer.
There are a few things to note:
We will continue to improve this new feature based on user feedback.
Therefore we are happy to announce a new feature – the ability to see a history of the users that have been banned from the site, either temporary or permanent.
https://www.neogaf.com/bans/
This page will show a list of bans that have occurred on the site and is updated in real time. It will provide information about the user, a link to the post that resulted in the moderator action (if applicable), as well as the timing of the ban and the reason. A link to this page will be placed in the site footer.
There are a few things to note:
- Temporary bans will be removed from this list once they are expired. We didn’t want this page to turn into a sort of “permanent record” that could potentially be used as ammunition against someone’s future arguments after they’ve returned.
- Occasionally you will see banned users that appear to have no post history or their offending post has been deleted. Moderators have been instructed to delete posts that don’t follow the site’s guidelines for things such as pornography, piracy, spam or self-promotion. These sorts of infractions often result in the offending user being banned.
- This ban history only goes back to July 25th, 2018. This is for technical reasons and ban history information prior to this date is not available.
We will continue to improve this new feature based on user feedback.