lil: Good find m_w. The hubski equivalent of this:
At the time, players were informed of their suspension via emails that didn’t explain why the punishment had been meted out. So Riot decided to try a new system that specifically cited the offense. This led to a very different result: Now when banned players returned to the game, their bad behavior dropped measurably.
would be to have the system send a blocked player a form message that the blocker could fill in. So, for example, if I wanted to ignore eightbitsamurai for being absolutely brilliant, when I go to ignore him, the system would generate an message saying politely, "Hi 8bit, I have decided to temporarily ignore you because of your genius as displayed in your recent post # - - - . " I will lift the ignore after ___ days." In fact the system could automatically lift the ignore after so many days.
If the tests at League of Legends is any measure of effectiveness, discourse should improve. Not that it is necessary to improve discourse.