DarkUnderlord OK, so there a number of shitposters on the Codex who keep getting banned and coming back with new alts. Neckbeard Shitlord (currently
Wehraboo), Orgasm/Black Bart Charlie (currently
Janise), possibly others.
I understand the implicit rational behind the way we're dealing with these posters right now. You don't really want to permaban people from the Codex, so the idea is that if we ban them and let them create new accounts, they might improve their behavior when they get the opportunity to start over a with a clean slate.
Well, these guys aren't improving. They just keep doing the same shit again and again. Banning them is actually serving their shitposting agenda by confusing people with the endless parade of alts. And re-identifying them each time is getting pretty boring. It's not a sustainable strategy.
I propose a different strategy. I say we force all of these shitposters to return to their earliest verifiable* accounts. From that moment on, we should:
1) Only issue temporary (1-2 week) bans, not permabans, except perhaps in the most heinous cases.
2) Nuke or permaban all shitposter alts on sight.
Call it "Operation Alt Amnesty". Instead of allowing the shitposters to engage in an endless masquerade, this would take them out of the shadows and make them clearly identifiable to all. Once you put them on your ignore list, they'd stay there. They wouldn't get to shed all of their richly-deserved tags every time they got banned.
It wouldn't have to be exclusive to shitposters, either. You could offer everybody a chance to return to their original accounts, like
Daedalos/
Mengsk for instance. It could create all sorts of drama and surprises. I don't think we know what Neckbeard Shitlord's original Codex account actually is. Could it be the individual known as "Bryce"?
*That means the earliest account that they can prove they have access to its email address, I guess. Or maybe you could look at their IP addresses. We wouldn't want to give out oldfag accounts to shitposters purely on their say-so.