Author Topic: Reasonless Bans - They don't help at all.  (Read 1241 times)

Tom

I don't think many people realize that bans aren't just to get someone out of your server, but there also to help teach newbs/noobs lessons.

Like lets say that Bob1234 had just bought blockland.
He joins his first server, and starts messing around, spamming some item spawns, and he gets banned, and the reason is "Gtfo noob"
That doesn't help him improve as a player, he'll just wonder why he was banned and maybe come to the forums and cry about it (and just get flamed).

But lets say the admin banned him, and with the reason "Placing unnecessary item spawns"
Bon1234 now has some idea of what he did wrong, and hopefully won't do it again.

Tl;dr
There's a reason box in the ban dialog, use it well.
« Last Edit: March 20, 2009, 11:39:33 AM by Tom »

I don't think the tl;dr was neccassary.

Anyways, yeah, I agree with you.



hmmph, join my server.

Blockhead***** Banned, reason: Please do not kill players/admins

Blockhead***** Banned, reason: Do not kill or spam spawns

Blockhead***** Banned, reason: STOP BREAKING THE RULES!!!

Blockhead***** Banned, reason: I won't even bother!

Bump, and why ban the lowest people on Blockland? Eventually your server will be empty.

Bump, and why ban the lowest people on Blockland? Eventually your server will be empty.

Yep, that's true.

If you ban all the newest people on Blockland, Blockland will most likely will not have a future.

Always the same old people, one leaves, the other does, 5 more do, LOTS leave, only one remains...
That's sad. D:

I don't think many people realize that bans aren't just to get someone out of your server, but there also to help teach newbs/noobs lessons.

Like lets say that Bob1234 had just bought blockland.
He joins his first server, and starts messing around, spamming some item spawns, and he gets banned, and the reason is "Gtfo noob"
That doesn't help him improve as a player, he'll just wonder why he was banned and maybe come to the forums and cry about it (and just get flamed).

But lets say the admin banned him, and with the reason "Placing unnecessary item spawns"
Bon1234 now has some idea of what he did wrong, and hopefully won't do it again.

Tl;dr
There's a reason box in the ban dialog, use it well.
Wait, what happened to Bob1234?

Was Bob1234 given a valid reason?