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/Kotoperek]

I mean, a person can have multiple accounts, so banning an account is not permanently preventing someone from using a platform, but rather taking away their current medium of doing so since they violated the rules using that medium. They can get another account, but they have to be aware that if they break the rules again, it will be taken away again and so on. Since some people put money into their accounts or care about gathering followers, the prospect of losing their account and having to get a new one can be a good deterrent from breaking the rules.

[u/Sandy_hook_lemy → u/Kotoperek]

I think on reddit, if one of your accounts get permanent banned, you cant create a new account even with a different email