Question, do mods give out temp bans to sig spammers, or do they just delete the posts??
Cause
as per this, sig spammers do get banned for a week as their first offense. Its been a while since I saw someone get banned for sig spamming or maybe I just didn't notice. Would like to know your thoughts on this.
There, I don't have a simple answer
.
A distinction must be made between simple mods and Global Mods.
Simple mods can delete messages/topics.
Global mods can also ban other members.
If a shitposter comes to the section I moderate, I can delete those posts. If he really insists, I can make a request to ban him. My request can be accepted... or not.
But the big difference between the work of a simple mod and a GM is the number of reports. If I have 50 reports in a month, it's a big month for me
. GM must have thousands of reports to handle (and there is only a small percentage of unhandled reports). It must be hard to remember or take time to find out if this member deserves a ban or not.
But in any case, temporary bans are given, see
here, but I don't have the stats
.