Danbooru

Stripped of privileged status?

Posted under General

As far as I'm aware, users keep their old level after a ban expires. However, a moderator can manually demote a user if they find a good reason to do so (this has happened to Privileged members in the past).

Thankfully, that rarely ever happens. And if you use common sense, and don't act like a jerk, you'll be just fine.

Edit: Upon checking Danbooru's source code more closely, users are, indeed, always reverted to Member level.

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Miku_Zero said:
I don't think that would do the image of trust on danbooru very well ^

since you pay money for a service, that service should remain active regardless what happens to the user

Bullshit. If you don't want to get banned, don't get yourself banned. If you buy drinks and then get yourself ejected from the bar, you don't expect to get refunded for the drinks, do you now?

Not to mention that it says in the terms and whatnot that it's ONLY buying you the higher access level, and not immunity from moderator actions.

Just because you pay money for a service doesn't mean you have special benefits, it only gains you access to that service under the guidelines that you consent to by agreeing to pay for it. If you disagree with the rule that you lose special status if banned, then don't agree to pay money for it.

As for the topic, if you get banned there is a good reason for it and I don't see why you should keep it, unless the ban was undeserved but that's another issue.

You pay to get privileged status, not to be exempted from all the rules of the site.

Now, albert has said that in some cases he would be okay with restoring privileged to paid users, and so would I, but it depends on the severity of the offense. Tag vandalism, not so much; being part of a minor comment spam chain or the first offense of posting a mild spoiler, maybe restoration is warranted. It all depends.

Besides, if what albert has said from time to time is any indication, there are very few paid users anyway.

I'm not trying to argue, but I think the idea of reverting somebody back to member after any kind of ban is a little absurd. I'll ask Albert myself, I hope he'll understand my case. I was banned with a bunch of people for the exact same reason. I posted spoilers in a picture thread, but only because I didn't think twice as everybody had done so before hand.

evazion said:
That's if a user is unblocked manually. If the ban expires by itself then a hook should run that will restore the previous level after the ban is destroyed.

If that's true, then thank you very much for the good news.
But I think I embarrassed myself with a pretty long e-mail sent to Albert.

If it's not true, I hope Albert reads my e-mail XP

EDIT: 葉月 is actually the one who banned me, and now he's saying if a ban expires (expires meaning automatically?) then privileged is reverted back to membership. Since he's the one who banned me I think he knows best.

evazion said: That's if a user is unblocked manually. If the ban expires by itself then a hook should run that will restore the previous level after the ban is destroyed.

Hm, really? I'm not sure I've seen that happen before. You know the code of course, but maybe it doesn't actually work. And I think it shouldn't revert anyway.

KooHooP said: I'm not trying to argue, but I think the idea of reverting somebody back to member after any kind of ban is a little absurd.

I don't. As I said, restoring status can happen on a case by case basis. It comes up infrequently because the vast majority of bans go to Member level users, where it's a moot point.

I was banned with a bunch of people for the exact same reason. I posted spoilers in a picture thread, but only because I didn't think twice as everybody had done so before hand.

And as I indicated, in such a case I'd generally not have a problem restoring paid privileged status. As long as you weren't a serial offender and this was your first ban, then a single spoiler - while deserving of the temp ban - doesn't have to erase your status forever.

I would prefer that people just wait out their ban and ask the question when they're back rather than create alt accounts like this. That's the whole purpose of a timed ban. What was your original account?

jxh2154 said:
And as I indicated, in such a case I'd generally not have a problem restoring paid privileged status. As long as you weren't a serial offender and this was your first ban, then a single spoiler - while deserving of the temp ban - doesn't have to erase your status forever.

This was my first offense, and while I'm banned, I'm going through all the rules, and I'm learning the text code to see how to make spoiler marked text.

I would prefer that people just wait out their ban and ask the question when they're back rather than create alt accounts like this. That's the whole purpose of a timed ban. What was your original account?

It's DOCoSPADEo
I'm sorry for making an alt like this, But I just wanted to ask this question.

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jxh2154 said:
Just dmail me when your DOCoSPADEo account is unbanned and I'll take care of it.

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it. I'm going to learn how to tag spoilers as well so I don't screw up again. Thanks alot.

KooHooP said:
I'm not trying to argue, but I think the idea of reverting somebody back to member after any kind of ban is a little absurd. I'll ask Albert myself, I hope he'll understand my case. I was banned with a bunch of people for the exact same reason. I posted spoilers in a picture thread, but only because I didn't think twice as everybody had done so before hand.

As jxh2154 says, we're always open to considering exceptions on a case by case basis. But the default policy should not be to revert. If you get yourself banned, it means you broke rules hard enough, and don't deserve past privileges anymore.

albert said:
I've restored your level.

The intention is that your old level is always restored after a ban expires.

Albert, KooHooP is an alt account he made to ask the question on the forums. The account that gets restored is DOCoSPADEo. KooHooP should not be priv since it's not even a legit account, technically (although he had a legit question).

And it should only be restored when he ban runs out.

albert said:
I've restored your level.

The intention is that your old level is always restored after a ban expires.

Uh oh, jxh2154 is right. This account shouldn't be privileged. I'm sorry albert for the confusion, but this account should be member, DOCoSPADEo is the account that should be privileged after the ban that expires on 1-15-2011

EDIT: Dang, I should've just done what jxh2154 mentioned earlier.

jxh2154 said:
I would prefer that people just wait out their ban and ask the question when they're back rather than create alt accounts like this.

I'm sorry but I was a little anxious for an answer

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