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With the launch of Talk, I want to have a clean slate to work with. Prior to this relaunch I did a lot of thinking about all elements of the site, and one of those topics is bans. I've received many comments from people about bans lately, and I listened and agree with a lot of them. Early in the site's life banning was the only way to enforce the rules. But a ban doesn't fit every situation. So I created suspensions not long ago. And to take the idea of being able to enforce rules without having to ban further, I've created a way to limit certain parts of the site if needed. For example, a vote manipulator could be suspended from voting temporarily, or have voting disabled entirely if the behavior continues. A spammer could be rate limited to 5/15/60/90 minutes between posts and comments. Someone posting porn without a tag repeatedly could lose the ability to post link posts, either indefinitely or temporarily. These scenarios are examples of the route I want to go down when it comes to taking authoritative action on this website. If these methods fail then a suspension will be warranted. If multiple suspensions fail, only then will a ban be issued. The two things that are excluded from all this and will result in an instant ban are 1. Posting CP. 2. Doxxing a user of the site. All users up to this point have been unbanned with the exception of one who was banned for doxxing another user. Some older bans could not be undone so they have been removed from the database.

Also worth mentioning: If you do not like a user, the block feature has been improved recently. It now fills in the blocked content with other content, so the full 25 topics still display per page.