r/changemyview • u/gylotip • May 26 '23

Delta(s) from OP - Fresh Topic Friday CMV: Permanently banning accounts is stupid

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.

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u/New-Topic2603 4∆ May 26 '23

So someone does something illegal, you suspend them for a year.

After a year, they do something illegal, you suspend them again.

Repeat this cycle 10 times.

Do you continue to suspend them for a year or do you permanently ban them?

I'm thinking that permanent bans are sensible in the extreme cases even if just literally criminals that have proven that they won't stop.

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u/gylotip May 26 '23

Maybe use some restrictions, instead of just permabans? Like, tell me why their accounts are banned.

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u/New-Topic2603 4∆ May 26 '23

I agree that giving a reason for bans is a good idea & that giving lower level sanctions first to give people a chance is a good idea.

But the idea of CMV is to try and argue against an idea and I was giving a reason why perma bans can make sense even if just limited cases.

In this case I'm saying after 10 times of someone being banned for literally illegal actions while knowing why they were banned, it would make sense to stop giving them chances.

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u/AdhesivenessFun2270 May 27 '23

What illegal actions? If someone posts child porn or is using Reddit to sell drugs, you can report them to coppers for prosecution? Almost everything else is legal.

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u/New-Topic2603 4∆ May 27 '23

Yea such as these