What does "Non-participant" mean?

[cupunlvr]

What does "Non-participant" shown under a member's screen name indicate? Can't find this in any of the FAQs......

[carisal]

seems that it usually means they have been banned (either temporarily, or permanently....)

[kval07]

I had a bad trade and PMed a mod asking about the member showing as a non participant and was told she was banned for a bad trade already.

[cupunlvr]

OK, thought it might be something like that but wasn't sure, thanks for your help, reps to you :smile:

[shelleyf]

It's something I definitely don't want, lol. I had a person I was trading with get it 2 days after we made arrangements for a trade. Thank God I didn't send my end because I would have been stuck. It hurts me when people do bad things. :sad:

[hcwhcw]

I've been wondering the same question myself! I'm glad OP asked.

Is the temporary suspension period a standard amount of time, like, is it always 3 months or 6 months or something like that?

Just wondering if certain posters who seemed to post a lot and then became non-participants (satileigh__, purplefdu, virusfdu, and someone else) are "scheduled" to come back in a certain time period from when they first because non-participants.

[kval07]

I think this is where "non participant" comes in to play:


Consequences

All infractions have consequences, here you will find how many points and how many infractions it will take to give users a consequence.
10 Points OR 6 Infractions = 2 Day Ban from the board
20 Points OR 8 Infractions = 5 Day Ban from the board
30 Points OR 10 Infractions = Permanent Ban from the boardRule violations are not a frequent occurrence, but they do happen. Most members are respectful to one another and follow the rules. We feel that knowing the rules and what will happen if you break the rules is good for the forum and community at large.


If they are gone for more than 5 days, I think it might be safe to say they are banned for good. If I'm wrong, I'm sure a more knowledgeable person will correct me!

[hcwhcw]

I think this is where "non participant" comes in to play:


Consequences

All infractions have consequences, here you will find how many points and how many infractions it will take to give users a consequence.
10 Points OR 6 Infractions = 2 Day Ban from the board
20 Points OR 8 Infractions = 5 Day Ban from the board
30 Points OR 10 Infractions = Permanent Ban from the boardRule violations are not a frequent occurrence, but they do happen. Most members are respectful to one another and follow the rules. We feel that knowing the rules and what will happen if you break the rules is good for the forum and community at large.


If they are gone for more than 5 days, I think it might be safe to say they are banned for good. If I'm wrong, I'm sure a more knowledgeable person will correct me!

I am definitely not a more knowledgeable person here and I am not correcting you, kval07... LOL... but I don't think that 5+days gone equals permanent ban, because there is another frequent poster on HCW whose non-participant status was for six months.

I don't know all the details, and I'm not saying their name because, for all I know, since they're back, maybe they don't want people to be reminded they were temporarily banned (although it's very possible they wouldn't really care if people know, I'm erring on the safe side here).

So since that person's n-p status was six months, I wondered if that was a standard temporary ban period. Mind you, it's not that I'm counting the days until any particular non-participant comes back! LOL. It's just weird, one day they're all over the place, and next day, gone, no explanation, no ETA on possible return. Mysterious! (And if anybody wants to PM me to LMK what happened with satileigh, purplefdu, virusfdu, and livermoremom (that's the other poster whose name I couldn't remember earlier), I wouldn't mind knowing!)

kval07, Where did you find that above list?

[kval07]

I found it under the Warnings & Infractions rules section under Community Rules.

[carisal]

it is possible for points/infractions to be reversed if a mod is contacted and a trade is made good on with an explanation for why it had gone bad

therefore one could be banned for say a month and then come back

hth :smile:

[queenofthehivemomof5]

Basically in a nut shell...Non Participant means banned. It could be temporarily or permanently. And we are not at liberty to discuss why a member was banned. But I can say this we don't go around banning folks just because.

This is our policy on banning members (and of course there are instances where we have to just make a decision)

- Spam - zero tollerance for it we ban them all. This makes up 99% of our banned member list. Spam is 30 points and we don't usually give warnings.

- Accured infractions (see above post). It takes ALOT to accumulate infractions in order to get yourself a perma-ban. This rarely happens. Remember that most infractions expire. So you have to continue to break the rules in a short time span or constantly repeat any non-expiring infraction in order to get 30 Points OR 10 Infractions. Take also into account that bad trades are serious non-expiring infractions and that it only take (I think) two to get yourself banned.

- On a case by case basis. Sometimes we just have to make an executive decision for the good of the community to keep out trolls, trouble makers, people involved in illegal activity. Additionally we don't tollerate anyone being outright hateful or disrespectfull to the admin or moderators.

If someone was perma-banned and they come back it is because they made good on the bad trade or appologized sincerelly. I don't recall anyone being banned for 6-months then comming back. But I guess it could be....