Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanent bans

Re:Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanen... by altairprime on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:03PM (#37946279)

It's not the worst approach to it, but there's a specific change they'll end up making to their proposed UI. Currently, the time limit is applied at the moment that Discord issues the warning:

> You can't send messages for 1 hour.

This will end up needing to incorporate a timer, so that users don't just say something offensive and then go take a nap and let the ban expire unnoticed. What they have now is easily dodged and disregarded ("I didn't see the notification!" objections). Something like this:

> You can't send messages until 1 hour after acknowledging this message.

So that when they next open Discord, the timer begins once then (and not prior), while removing all deniability for having 'overlooked' the notification.

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Re:Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanen... by xboxnolifes on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:48PM (#37946925)

Going and taking a nap could be the point. Just getting a user disengaged from an argument can be beneficial.

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Re:Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanen... by forgotpwd16 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:14PM (#37947316)

Sure is. But next time they do the same offense again because they skipped the message and be banned they'll complain they got banned without reason.

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Re:Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanen... by bobsmith432 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:23PM (#37947446)

People also complain that someone stole their email address because someone with the same name made one first. You can't fix stupid unfortunately.

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Re:Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanen... by altairprime on Thursday October 19, 2023 @06:20PM (#37949565)

You can certainly plan for it, though.

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Re:Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanen... by jonathanlydall on Thursday October 19, 2023 @04:08PM (#37948033)

I used to be WoW GM (many, many years ago now) and 3 hour suspensions effectively worked like this, if you were offline it would only start the timer when you next logged back in. I can’t recall for sure, but I think 24 and 72 hour suspensions were different and started the count down at the time applied.

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