A thread to converse in instead of using the moderators (request and notices)thread

There are 518 banned users, of which over 400 have the string "spam" somewhere in the ban reason.

I keep records of spammers who managed to actually register to help spot them and block them in future.

So depending on which way you want to cut it, and right now we have 37,609 accounts...

1.37% are banned (if you include all spammers and use the 518 banned accounts figure)

or

0.31% are banned (if you do not include the spammers which are usually deleted from other forums and use a 518 - 400 = 118 banned accounts figure)

LFGSS, and the other forums I run are very rare in that I avoid banning people if I can do so, and so they have extraordinarily low ban rates.

Although, doing this means accepting a higher degree of trolling for longer periods of time and more disruption... but far fewer false positives.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most of the remaining bans are nursery period bans. But even those don't happen half as much as people imagine they do. Most nursery fails I ignore... just deleting the posts involved and not banning the people, and those people go on and integrate fine.