Who thinks BP should take into account context and upvotes when considering banning people for 10 downvotes?
#1
Of course if it's hate speech or trolling, banning is quite right and proper - but a comment that 10 people (out of 8 billion) disagree with, is that so bad? Should there be a chance to delete the comment before being banned? How can one always know in advance what people are going to object to? A lot of the enjoyment of the site comes from the comments - ban people and not only do they lose comments, they're likely to lose visitors and precious clicks.
4points
#2
Yeah, deleting people's accounts is a bit extreme. If you wanted, you could make 10 accounts and get someone banned. That's really not ideal.
2points
#3
Depends on the comment. If it’s hateful or something of the sort then absolutely they should get contacted. If someone is simply sharing their opinion, then I think it’s fine.
1point
#4
Definitely!
1point
#5
I dont think anyone should be banned.
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#6
Yeah! BP should definitely take context before banning a person! If somebody is just voicing their opinion and people don’t agree, they should not get banned. But if somebody is just being mean and hateful, then they should get banned
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#7
Thank you for your responses. It appears we are in agreement. My question is therefore - how do we persuade the Admins at BP to do something about it? Either a direct change of policy, or even a poll to see if everyone else agrees? I'm not sure what the mechanism is. Any admins on here who can advise?
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#8
The other bizarre thing is that my profile is showing 1090 points, in the top 1% overall - yet I am unable to comment. Somebody do something!!
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