Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow

Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by croemer on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:37AM (#42643150)

A warning would have been absolutely sufficient, at most a very short term ban but given there was no harm being done currently and the rules weren't even clear no ban is justified.

I am aware of vote fraud and it's ok that SO warns/suspends if one engages in it. In this case it arguably does. However it needs to be a proportionate response to the action, and not done as retaliation.

I'm also a fairly high reputation SO contributor (in current rankings top 150).

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by fabian2k on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:19AM (#42643397)

This specific user has a very long history on SO and the rest of the network. You have to assume that this history might have played a part in the decision to suspend instead of only warning.

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by DangitBobby on Thursday January 09, 2025 @10:47AM (#42646766)

No real reason to assume that.

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by fabian2k on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:56AM (#42647518)

1 year suspensions are not handed out for first offenses. The guidelines for mods are to give escalating suspensions for 7/30/365 days, so this is most likely at least the third suspension for this user.

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by croemer on Thursday January 09, 2025 @12:59PM (#42648160)

This case could be different. Do you know he was suspended before? It makes sense that they'd want to ban him for a year if this is retribution. It all checks out. The email doesn't mention a previous ban which I'd expect to be mentioned if it was a factor.

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by fabian2k on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:15PM (#42648903)

This specific user has been suspended multiple times on different sites of the SE network. I don't know exactly how often.

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by immibis on Saturday January 11, 2025 @03:40AM (#42664377)

I received a 1 year suspension on Meta for:

* I asked a question about a moderation policy (are we allowed to delete comments? here are two conflicting sources. Which one is correct?)

* A moderator requested an edit in a comment, then shortly after, deleted it due to not having that edit.

* Since there's no way to edit a deleted question, I posted it again with the edit.

I think the ban was actually for questioning SE's inconsistency. Like all dictatorships, they punish you for not obeying in advance.

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