It has recently come to light that there currently exists a loophole by which banned users could submit new content to the site. This has prompted discussion amongst staff as the best way to close said loophole. The current discussion has solidified around amending the Site Rules to include content specifying such.
The language of this amendment is currently:
Users currently banned from the site may not submit new articles or other works to the site in any way.
Users banned for harassment concerns may not request content edits to their articles or submit any new content to the site in any way. Users banned for disciplinary matters may request content edits to existing work so long as proposed edits are not intentionally provocative, rule-breaking, or be so universal as to constitute a de facto new piece. Proposed edits will be considered on a case-by-case basis with no guarantees of acceptance.
Attempts to circumvent this policy will be seen as justification to deny any future edit requests.
All banned users may request deletion of their existing work or works, and staff will comply as soon as they are reasonably able to.
This discussion will be open for 72h and any proposed edits will be consolidated into a voting thread. As this policy is specifically an Anti-Harassment and Disciplinary Committee issue, this discussion is open to AH/Disc/Site Mod only, though JS/OS may post with permission from their captains.
Note: As this has come up several times, this policy amendment is not intended to be applied retroactively. Any attempts to apply this policy ex post facto to previously implemented changes would need to be discussed in detail elsewhere.
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EDIT: Updated to include "All banned users may request deletion of their existing work or works, and staff will comply as soon as they are reasonably able to."
EDITx2: Modified "Users permanently banned from the site may not submit new articles or other works to the site in any way." to be "Users currently banned from the site may not submit new articles or other works to the site in any way."
EDITx3: Added the retroactive note.
