We should make bans on accounts for spamming and whatnot limited to all but Meta section or people will keep on making new accounts to appeal their bans. This is getting to be a bit outrageous... search up banned in the members list and find, "whyamibanned, banned_user, igotbanned, banned me again" an more. I think I've proven my case.
Yup its getting annoying, but the fact that people don't read the other threads on the first page before posting isn't something that can be helped. In any other section it would be deleted as spam, but given the subject matter, and the fact that posts in meta are very infrequently deleted, it makes it tricky.
I actually considered proposing this several months ago but never got around to it. After thinking about this for a while, I would think the likely result is that people would just make a lot of insubstantial posts with their paid signature in the meta section in order for them to continue getting paid while they are banned
We are pretty good at detecting that. If someone creates a thread, gets an answer, and keeps spamming, they will still be hit for ban evasion. Meta isn't a safe haven for banned accounts to post, its the one place that they may post to get answers, and then wait out their ban.
My proposal to have any signature automatically removed when a ban is instituted would actually solve this problem because the signature campaign manager would (hopefully) see the removed signature and would withhold payment as a result, and the incentive for someone to post a bunch of useless posts in meta would be removed
That would be really really bad. Sure it would help with the people who are banned for spamming for their sig ad, but what about the people who have PGP keys, etc?
I'm not really sure what to do at this point, people are going to just not read the rules, then get banned, then complain. I'm not sure what can be done about that. Maybe have a single thread in meta where they can post? But that might cause issues as well.
