Warnings and Site Ban Theater

[binchickendreaming]

29 minutes ago, HeyYou said:

Doesn't give ya a lotta hope for the human race though, does it?

I dunno. Makes me feel better about my life choices.

[JimboUK]

3 hours ago, HeyYou said:

Doesn't give ya a lotta hope for the human race though, does it?

The world has always had idiots in it, the only difference now is the internet has given them a voice.

[HeyYou]

41 minutes ago, JimboUK said:

The world has always had idiots in it, the only difference now is the internet has given them a voice.

Valid point..... Now they have a worldwide audience, instead of just locals.

[Squirrel97]

I rate it 10 out of 10 pies.

Now I'm hungry.

[acidzebra]

As entertaining as the ban/warning section sometimes is, it's worth remembering that the nexus community is 59 million people strong. If the nexus existed for 18 years and bans 100 people a day (I think it's less than that), that would be 365*100*18=657k people banned over the lifetime of the nexus (again, I think it's less). Now, there will be repeat & reversed bans and not all accounts are active etc etc but the point is - the really unpleasant ones are a tiny, tiny fraction of the total userbase.

[HeyYou]

1 hour ago, acidzebra said:

As entertaining as the ban/warning section sometimes is, it's worth remembering that the nexus community is 59 million people strong. If the nexus existed for 18 years and bans 100 people a day (I think it's less than that), that would be 365*100*18=657k people banned over the lifetime of the nexus (again, I think it's less). Now, there will be repeat & reversed bans and not all accounts are active etc etc but the point is - the really unpleasant ones are a tiny, tiny fraction of the total userbase.

True. The vast majority of members will never even visit the forums.......

[showler]

This isn't technically from the Warnings and Bans forum, but...look at this nonsense.  The "person" came back and edited a spam link into the period at the end of their sentence.  What is the point?

 

[TheVampireDante]

That's a hell of an old tactic, didn't know anyone bothered trying that these days.

As for why - there's always some that will see it's a link and click it blindly without reading any info that shows up.

[AaronOfMpls]

On 2/8/2025 at 3:28 PM, showler said:

This isn't technically from the Warnings and Bans forum, but...look at this nonsense.  The "person" came back and edited a spam link into the period at the end of their sentence.  What is the point?

 

Referrer spam, would be one of my guesses -- trying to increase search engine rankings by having more links to their page.

On 2/8/2025 at 7:18 PM, TheVampireDante said:

That's a hell of an old tactic, didn't know anyone bothered trying that these days.

As for why - there's always some that will see it's a link and click it blindly without reading any info that shows up.

Yah, old enough that I'd figure Google et al know about it and can de-prioritze such links in search engine rankings.  Though yah, they might also be trying to get the occasional curious person  wondering why a period is linked, whose finger is itchy enough to click blindly without mousing over it to see where it goes.

[JimboUK]

On 2/9/2025 at 1:18 AM, TheVampireDante said:

That's a hell of an old tactic, didn't know anyone bothered trying that these days.

As for why - there's always some that will see it's a link and click it blindly without reading any info that shows up.

I remember bookmarking posts that I thought would have a link added later and I was rarely wrong, they tended to stand out as not looking quite right.