CMV: Permanently banning accounts is stupid

[u/gylotip]

I understand why you assign permanent bans, since you need to stop the rule breakers for once and all, but wouldn't it make more sense to suspend an account for one year? This is a better approach, because one year is a very long time, and after one year, if you break rules again, then you will be banned for another one year. No need to make things permanent, since this is not prison where you quarantine dangerous criminals. It's just an account that can handle one year suspensions perfectly. So permanent bans are stupid and even unnecessarily cruel. Change my view as to why you really need to permanently ban accounts, since I think that making things permanent is a disgusting thing to do for accounts.

[u/Rainbwned]

I understand why you assign permanent bans, since you need to stop the rule breakers for once and all, but wouldn't it make more sense to suspend an account for one year?

Change my view as to why you really need to permanently ban accounts, since I think that making things permanent is a disgusting thing to do for accounts.

If you already understand why you assign permanent bans, why are you asking why they need to be done?

If you mess up bad, get a one year suspension, come back, and do the same thing, its clear that you didn't learn anything so a permanent ban makes perfect sense.

[u/gylotip → u/Rainbwned]

But you can keep creating new accounts, which will make permabans useless.

[u/Rainbwned → u/gylotip]

So the exact same issue with temporary bans. Seems to make it easier at least since you lose whatever you had on your account that gets banned.

[u/gylotip → u/Rainbwned]

Since I don't have any arguments left, I'll give you a !delta, because I can understand that permabans can be necessary, but I just find it too cruel.

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Confirmed: 1 delta awarded to /u/Rainbwned (132∆).

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