Expiring Demerits

Monday, March 24th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Generally I have been pretty happy with how the demerits scheme has worked.  Ultimately everyone comments here at my pleasure, but the scheme has given some transparency around what sort of comments I regard as unacceptable. It also generally seems to work in providing an incentive for people to be less trollish once they have some demerits.

Not that I wish it to be an expect replica of the traffic demerits scheme, but I do wonder whether I should allow demerits to disappear after a period of time, so that someone doesn’t end up suspended one day for say five comments spread over four years which attracted demerits.

There seem to me to be two ways I could let demerits expire.  They are:

  1. x months after a demerit was given, it expires
  2. y months after the last demerit was given, all current demerits expire

My thinking is along the lines of x=12 if I implement (1) and probably y=6 if I implement (2). Feedback on these are welcome. I note most people who end up suspended do so for comments over one to two months.

Another issue is whether I should should ever reset people’s suspension histories, say after an election. So if someone had been suspended for two months prior to an election, and then after the election they were suspended again, it would be back to just one week instead of four months. In theory as I plan to keep this blog going for many years, some people could end up with year long bans etc. On the other hand I don’t see much merit in helping recidivist offenders :-)

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Demerits

Monday, October 15th, 2007 at 6:30 am

To deal with the more abusive and disruptive commenters, Kiwiblog is operating a demerit system. The general guide to demerit points will be:

100 points – For highly defamatory comments
50 points – For grossly inflammatory comments with no redeeming quality
35 points – For blatant trolling, highly inflammatory comments
20 points – abusive language
10 points – posting off topic
5 points – For minor infractions, such as one inflammatory sentence in an otherwise good post

These are a guide only. At 100 demerits you get suspended – initially for one week, but the duration doubles with each further suspension.

If you see a comment that you think is highly abusive, then feel free to report it by sending an e-mail to kiwiblogabuse@gmail.com. The e-mail should include a link to the specific comment (if you click on the date/time of the comment, this will bring it up in the address bar).

I do not have time to read every thread, let alone every comment. So your help in maintaining standards is appreciated. I also do not have time to respond to every complaint – they will all be considered, and you’ll see below whether or not I decide demerits are warranted. Generally I won’t respond individually.

Name Current Expiry Last suspension Reason
AG 20
Alces 1 week
Angus 50
Charlie Brown 20
Banana Llama 50
Batman 30
Bed Rater 20
Bereal 40
Berend 20
Big Bruv 30 1 week
Bill Hicks 1 week
Billy Borker 2 months
Black wih a Vengeance/Pollywog 30 2 weeks
Bok 1 week
Brian Smaller 30
Bulbul 50
Chuck Bird 60
Ciaron 30
Courage Wolf 1 week
Dad4Justice 10-Dec-12 1 year
Daigotsu 100 1 week
Dave Mann 30
David Garrett 1 week
Dazzaman 20
Decanker 20
Dick 50
Dirty Rat 2 weeks
Duxton 1 week
East Wgtn Superhero 10
Falafulu Fisi 30
FOT 70
George 30
Ghost/Jacob/Countess 8 months
Glutaemus Maximums 1 week
Greenfly/Village Idiot 11-Sep-32 Trolling/Impersonating DPF
Grizz 1 week
Grumpy old Hori 30
Guy Fawkes 10
Hagues 20
Honest John/curia pigeon/HJ 20 1 week
Hurf Durf 50
Jabba 20 1 week
Jack McDonald 20
Jackp 60
James 2 weeks
JamesS 80
Joana 10
John Boy 2 weeks
John/JSF/Joe Average/ Roger Rabbit/Jock/Harry Glicken/paws 110 11-Sep-32 10 abusive e-mails to DPF
Joseph Carpenter 20
Kapital/Turja 1 week
KiwiGunner 20
Kunst5 20
Labour’s a joke 20
Last Man Standing 20
Lazybum 30
Le Grande Fromage 30 1 week
Lee C 50
Lilman 20
Luc Hansen 30 1 week
M@tt 30
Maggie 40
Magic Bullet 110 1 week
Malcolm 30
Manolo 50
Mattyroo 30
Mawm 20
Megatron 30
Menace 1 week
Michaels 20 1 week
Mike Johnson 1 week
Murray 70 1 week
Murray M 10 1 week
My name is Jack 100 06-Jan-12 2 months
Natural Party of Oppn 1 week
Offshore Kiwi 1 week
Other Andy 20
Paul Rain 50
Pauleastbay 30
Paulus 20
Petal 30
Pete 20
Peter Quixote 100 2 weeks
Phil U 02-Mar-12 4 months
Plebe 20
Pongo 30
Psycho Milt 30
Pushmepullu 2 weeks
Quinnjin 1 week
Racer 11-Sep-32 Vandalism/Wikipedia smears
Randy Savage 20
Rat 50
Rebel Heart/Stan 8 months
Reid 20
Redbaiter 2 months
Rich Prick 40
Right Now 20
RJL 20
Robbie Black 11-Sep-32 Self Requested
Robert Owen 11-Sep-32 Gross abuse to owner, multiple ids
Robinson/Robinsod 11-Sep-32 slander and lies
Rocket Boy 11-Sep-32 Sheer nastiness
Roger Nome 11-Sep-32 His visceral loathing of me
Ross 100 18-Feb-12 1 week
RRM 20
Sam Dixon/Daedulus/Steve Pierson 11-Sep-32 Wikipedia smears
Scanner 70
Scott Chris 20
Simon 10
Sonic 70
Starboard 100 2 weeks
Swiftman/Scum Sucker 11-Sep-32 anti-semite
Tim Barclay 30 1 week
Todd 11-Sep-32 non stop trolling plus threatening to sue me
Toms/Fish Boy 2 weeks
Tom Gould 11-Sep-32 Offfensive Troll
Tristanb 30
ttibs 1 week
ummmm 1 week
Viking2 1 week
VTO 90
Wat dabney 1 week
Yes we did 50
Zapper 50
Zhumua 1 week
Current as at 10-Feb-12

 

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