I keep an eye on them for the same reasons.
Permanent blacklisting! That doesn't just prevent Hivewatchers from seeing their content, but everyone who follows a blacklisted person's works on popular platforms.
I know a new user who has felt compelled to spam post daily apology posts on his blog for a month, attempting to redeem himself to Hivewatchers, and they continued to spam comment all of their future original works as well with warnings of plagiarism, even after they corrected their ways.
Anyway, I'm off topic from this main post.
I am willing to support countermeasures to keep the Quack from attacking those who are peacefully expressing open free speech of ideas and opinions.
@creativetruth
"I know a new user who has felt compelled to spam post daily apology posts"
If the blacklisted decided to spam the apology posts every day to further make the situation worse then it is the user's choice.
Such begging practice and not following our clear rules regarding an appeal process would only make the situation worse for that user.
Unless you are suggesting that we forced the user to do so.
In such case please stop spreading false information about us.
We have never asked anyone to post an "apology to the community" every single day.
We ask for it to be posted only once. The appellants do not apologize to us but to the community.
@montycashmusic
"And is it possible to get off the list if someone retracts the posts by editing them?"
They can edit them but they have to go through the appeal process anyway if they are blacklisted.
tonygreene113 was given few warnings before he was blacklisted.
He continued to plagiarise or spam with copypasta, regardless.
All the replies that we received were some nonsense about freedom of speech or some nonsensical replies and gifs/memes being sent back.
Later he became vulgar and started replying with insults.
Nope, I can't say you forced anyone to do anything. To that, I can only state what I have witnessed.
When people learn they are blacklisted, and the appeals isn't working for them, they search for solutions. Sometimes, I notice people's emotions take over their better judgement in this process, which is understandable.
Thanks for your reply @hivewatcher
I don't know enough about the case to make an assessment.
Where can one find this appeal process if one needs it?
And are some users, even if it seems they have gone too far, able to redeem themselves after a time?
Also how long does an appeal normally take?
I am not disregarding a need for such a service to the community, it's just a few people feel like they're being picked on without cause.
What about user chadchaddington what crime did he commit in your books?
Anyone on the blacklist can appeal in our Discord.
The appeal timer varies depending on different factors such as the intention, time spent on the platform, type of abuse, the attitude of the user towards the community remarks about the abuse, etc.
Each case is assessed individually.
Some users/accounts are blacklisted permanently with no chance of appeal.
This usually happens when the user/account is caught with identity theft or identity deception, phishing, using multiple accounts to farm, using deception to avoid detection of abuse (it means that the user knows what is doing and abuse is intentional) such as spinning the writing, taking screenshots of the text (to avoid cheetah detection), modifying photography/art/videos, etc.
Sometimes we also permanently blacklist if the user is Google translations from the websites in other languages to avoid detection but not often.
Ok, these things seem reasonable to me. Thanks for elaborating.