Should banned user mods/maps/etc be deleted from these boards?

cleveland · #1 December 17th, 2010, 11:00 PM

Gents,

The question was "Should banned user mods/maps/etc be deleted," not "Must" or "Legally" or "Under threat of prosecution" etc, etc.

It's an ethical question.

I'm merely wondering if a company can ethically profit (forums are a sales tool, remember?) from the contributions made from those they've forbidden from participating.

Apologies for the flavor text around the poll options - perhaps they're a bit, er, dickery (sp?) - but I'm still curious to know the community's opinion, my own interpretation aside.

Gandalf Parker · #2 December 18th, 2010, 12:44 AM

But even thats asked abit lopsided.
The answer would tend toward NO. That is IF the forbidding was purely the act of those who run the forum. How much of the forbidding can be chalked up to the actions of the people who got banned would tend to affect that.

Also... are you asking if the forum admins should themselves automatically delete the posts and products of everyone they ban? Wouldnt wiping out someone from the existence and history of the forum be even more heavy handed?

Or are you saying that the people who are banned should automatically demand that their posts and products be removed? That they should take such a banishment so heavily as to do that to their former peers? And I guess to avoid the profiting thing that they should abandon the game completely, not create anything else for it, and not recommend it.

cleveland · #3 December 18th, 2010, 01:11 AM

Not sure what's so unclear about this question. I'll try again, in a different format:

If you were banned from this forum, would your like to have your copyrighted material removed from this forum?

Foodstamp · #4 December 19th, 2010, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by cleveland

Not sure what's so unclear about this question. I'll try again, in a different format:

If you were banned from this forum, would your like to have your copyrighted material removed from this forum?

That is not what you asked. Your "yes", "no" and "abstain" all have strings attached. You know why it is unclear because you made the thread just to troll.