bans for pinging people:
He claims to have warned , and cited the ToS section on "tampering with site resources".
So making use of site resources, in a natural and justifiable way, is now grounds for permanent site wide ban on the grounds of exceeding some arbitrary, unstated limit on the reasonable usage of site resources.
There are plenty of people of this website who ping other users all the time. It's about forming a community and knowing when other users might be interested in a subject. Will such users be suddenly banned in future on account of this? What's the limit, ?
The only reason was banned was because he was occasionally including in his comment pings, thus drawing 's attention to it. How do we users interested in transparency know that banned because some tenuous connection to "tampering with site resources", and not because he was annoyed at getting a couple of pings from the same user every day.
This needs to be made more objective, clear for all users.
Is the only reason Poal ran smoothly and without controversy for so long because there weren't enough users to elevate admin stress to the point of making such bad decisions as this? Do users on this site really want bans to be dished our for such dubious reasons?
Poal is growing; the admins need to acknowledge that. If resources are so stretched, limit the number of pings users can use - don't ban them for exceeding arbitrarily drawn limits.
It's not that complicated.
is going to ban me for using too many pings in this post?
@AOU bans @ARM for pinging people: [Source](https://poal.co/s/LogosRising/258264/a9f40d06-6efb-4382-9892-516537a55611)
He claims to have warned @ARM, and cited the ToS section on "tampering with site resources".
So making use of site resources, in a natural and justifiable way, is now grounds for permanent site wide ban on the grounds of exceeding some arbitrary, unstated limit on the reasonable usage of site resources.
There are plenty of people of this website who ping other users all the time. It's about forming a community and knowing when other users might be interested in a subject. Will such users be suddenly banned in future on account of this? What's the limit, @AOU?
The only reason @ARM was banned was because he was occasionally including @AOU in his comment pings, thus drawing @AOU's attention to it. How do we users interested in transparency know that @AOU banned @ARM because some tenuous connection to "tampering with site resources", and not because he was annoyed at getting a couple of pings from the same user every day.
This needs to be made more objective, clear for all users.
Is the only reason Poal ran smoothly and without controversy for so long because there weren't enough users to elevate admin stress to the point of making such bad decisions as this? Do users on this site really want bans to be dished our for such dubious reasons?
Poal is growing; the admins need to acknowledge that. If resources are so stretched, limit the number of pings users can use - don't ban them for exceeding arbitrarily drawn limits.
It's not that complicated.
@PMYB2 is @AOU going to ban me for using too many pings in this post?
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