Of course if it's hate speech or trolling, banning is quite right and proper - but a comment that 10 people (out of 8 billion) disagree with, is that so bad? Should there be a chance to delete the comment before being banned? How can one always know in advance what people are going to object to? A lot of the enjoyment of the site comes from the comments - ban people and not only do they lose comments, they're likely to lose visitors and precious clicks.

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Apatheist 62

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Yeah, deleting people's accounts is a bit extreme. If you wanted, you could make 10 accounts and get someone banned. That's really not ideal.

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Populus tremuloides(they/them)

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Depends on the comment. If it’s hateful or something of the sort then absolutely they should get contacted. If someone is simply sharing their opinion, then I think it’s fine.

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Bubblegum Witch

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Definitely!

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Sleestak

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I dont think anyone should be banned.

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Matt C

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Yeah! BP should definitely take context before banning a person! If somebody is just voicing their opinion and people don’t agree, they should not get banned. But if somebody is just being mean and hateful, then they should get banned

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A Very Bored Panda

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Thank you for your responses. It appears we are in agreement. My question is therefore - how do we persuade the Admins at BP to do something about it? Either a direct change of policy, or even a poll to see if everyone else agrees? I'm not sure what the mechanism is. Any admins on here who can advise?

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Apatheist 62

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The other bizarre thing is that my profile is showing 1090 points, in the top 1% overall - yet I am unable to comment. Somebody do something!!

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