An Interesting Experiment

[Adrian Schneider]

April fools is coming up so I'll try to release it in time.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

Wonder what would happen if we do this on vb.org.

That would be an adventure. I would laugh when I saw the results...

Originally Posted by SirAdrian

April fools is coming up so I'll try to release it in time.

Definitely the best experiment ever done. Period.

[Lynne]

If you release this, it would be a great April Fools joke! I have a feeling it would be a pretty 'silent' day in our Lounge since I'll be all the Post Wh*res would ban each other for fun only to find themselves banned.

[snunhuck]

roflmao - @D. That;d be great, please post the script

[Boofo]

But once someone bans themselves, then the word gets out. Maybe have a setting for a self ban and something else?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Boofo

But once someone bans themselves, then the word gets out. Maybe have a setting for a self ban and something else?

Maybe turn registration off for the day. They would have to reregister in order to go 'tattle' to the others.

[Boofo]

The possibilities are endless with what you could add to this. But the first user that falls for it will let everyone else know so it will be useless for a while until they forget about it.

[snunhuck]

Ok, turn registration off then enable the mod hehehehe
Ban themselves for 1 hour maybe?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Boofo

The possibilities are endless with what you could add to this. But the first user that falls for it will let everyone else know so it will be useless for a while until they forget about it.

How will they tell the others? They are banned and can't use PMs.

I actually have my site set so that when you first register, you are in a usergroup that cannot use PMs. Then, you get promoted to a regular usergroup after at least a day. So, if my users get banned, they can create a new account, but not PM anyone. And, I could make that usergroup so all posts get moderated also, so they couldn't post about it.

Yeah, I like the idea of this mod.

[popowich]

If I used it I'd fix it at 24hrs.

That would be funny for my old site.

They loved drama. Still do actually.

-Raymond

Originally Posted by SirAdrian

On my board, my members always give me a hard time for enforcing the rules, such as banning people. I figured it would be interesting (and humerous, but more to that later) if I was to give them power to ban a user at random, for the amount of days they enter (3 to 30). I called the game Banning Roulette.

I thought it would be interesting to see who would be hypocritical and actually try to use this power to ban somebody. Not only that, but they would be banning somebody for no reason other than their own silly amusements.

So they go to the script, and submit the number of days they wish to play. Upon submitting, they see:And it actually bans them, with a similar reason message.

Anyway, I found it pretty darn funny. I managed to get my other administrator, 3 moderators, and over 100 users (about 200 visit per day), so that's a really high amount.

Most of them are pretty upset now.

Anyone performed anything similar? and, let me know if you guys want me to post the script.