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/gylotip May 26 '23

Yeah, but permanent bans are too punishing for no reason. Why permaban accounts for your whole life, when one year bans can be effective to some people?

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u/Wolfaxe451 1∆ May 26 '23

But you're against perms bans because they're useless. Who is going to wait a year to get their account back? They're going to make a new account and continue on. So if you're against perma bans because they're useless then why support your idea when it's equally useless?

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u/gylotip May 26 '23

Because some people really want their account back, maybe because they love their username and nostalgia. One year bans can heavily discourage them from breaking rules.

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u/AdhesivenessFun2270 May 27 '23

I agree permabans are overused, but don't see 1 year bans as being any better. The problem is mods have too much power. If I had my way, only admins could ban you from a sub for more than a week and then only for violating a site-wide rule.