Month: March 2017

This seems to be the first day in 10 days without anything to report.

I mean, I could report retrospectively Vicky Prest’s just expired edit block, but I’m going with: “This seems to be the first day in 10 days without anything to report.”

So. Some levity. Or maybe gallows humour.

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Levity the first.

User features in these annals. I’ve just unearthed from my Facebook Messenger annals (seem to have missed it at the time) what Kate saw as her ban notification:

The jokes really do write themselves.

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Levity the second.

This is an image that has struck terror in the heart of many a Quoran over the past couple of weeks:

I’m sorry, guys. You really have come to see me as this guy, haven’t you:

Or maybe this guy:

As long as you don’t confuse me with this guy:

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Levity the Third:

LEADING STARTUP FIRE by Victor Goodwin on Musings

You know you’ve been on Quora too long when you recognise all the allusions. Several of them predate Necrologue.

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Levity the Fourth.

From beyond the grave, Sophie Dockx has sent me this Hiphopian Eulogy for our Friends in Exile, written by Sophidocles of Amversa:

Micus Droppus, indeed…

Banned:

• User [T*snia B*sit]
  • Reason given: None

Deactivated, Answers Deleted, Quit:

• User [S*phia *l-*rabiya]
  • Statement: https://www.quora.com/log/revisi…

The account of the same name is going to be deleted.

Posts on this blog will only point to the profile of users, and mention any reason for sanction given in edit profiles. Speculation about why people have been banned or blocked will not be entertained. BNBR applies in comments.

Banned (again):

• Ashish Ranjan
• Reason given: Multiple accounts
• Statement: Ashish Ranjan’s answer to Would Ashish Ranjan come back on Quora?

Posts on this blog will only point to the profile of users, and mention any reason for sanction given in edit profiles. Speculation about why people have been banned or blocked will not be entertained. BNBR applies in comments.

Banned

• Kelley Spartiatis
• Reason given: none.
• Kelley has contacted me. She does not know why she was banned.

Unbanned:

• Kelley Spartiatis
• “Ban being reviewed.”

Posts on this blog will only point to the profile of users, and mention any reason for sanction given in edit profiles. Speculation about why people have been banned or blocked will not be entertained. BNBR applies in comments.

Unbanned:

• Ashish Ranjan
• “reviewed and overturned”

Posts on this blog will only point to the profile of users, and mention any reason for sanction given in edit profiles. Speculation about why people have been banned or blocked will not be entertained. BNBR applies in comments.

Unbanned (confirmed):

• Kelley Spartiatis
• Notified in email: “mistake”

Posts on this blog will only point to the profile of users, and mention any reason for sanction given in edit profiles. Speculation about why people have been banned or blocked will not be entertained. BNBR applies in comments.

Quit:

• Peter Hand
• Statement: https://www.quora.com/What-are-s…

Well, I appealed this time, and Quora rejected my appeal, so I am done with Quora. I won’t be answering any more questions and I’m contemplating deleting everything I ever wrote here.

Posts on this blog will only point to the profile of users, and mention any reason for sanction given in edit profiles. Speculation about why people have been banned or blocked will not be entertained. BNBR applies in comments.

Unbanned:

• Charu Joshi
• “Ban has been reviewed as an error. Writer is reinstated to Quora with our apologies.”

Posts on this blog will only point to the profile of users, and mention any reason for sanction given in edit profiles. Speculation about why people have been banned or blocked will not be entertained. BNBR applies in comments.

I am introducing new categories of activity, and I am providing formal definitions with the guidelines now.

Categories of activity:

• User-triggered
• Deactivation: The user deactivates their own account. Signalled on their profile by a grey banner, “this user has deactivated their account”. The user needs to re-authenticate to access their account.
• Deactivation notices will not be published by default to Necrologue. The community is invited to submit such notices to Argologue instead.
• Deactivation notices will still be published on Necrologue, if accompanied by a Quit notice indicating that the the user is: (a) departing Quora permanently; (b) departing Quora temporarily, for reasons internal to Quora.
• Quit: The user has made an explicit statement that they will no longer participate in Quora. Where publicly available, such statements will henceforth be linked to from the post itself. Bear in mind that users have various reasons for declining to participate in Quora.
• Reducing Participation: The user has made an explicit statement that they are reducing the level of their engagement on Quora. Where publicly available, such statements will henceforth be linked to from the post itself.
• Withholding Answers: The user has made an explicit statement that they will no longer answer questions on Quora. They will still do other actions on Quora, such as comment or message. Where publicly available, such statements will henceforth be linked to from the post itself.
• Changed Name: The user has changed their name to something that is clearly not their real name. Typically a prelude to quitting, and usually accompanied by deactivation. As this flaunts the Real Name rule of Quora, I refer to it informally as “suicide by Real Name”.
• Deleted Answers: The user has deliberately deleted a substantial number of answers they have contributed to Quora.
• Deleted: The user has deleted their account. This removes all their answers and their profile from the Quora system. It thus makes them an “unperson” on Quora (someone who has chosen to remove their identity). Because their profile no longer exists, there is no identity to link to. Out of respect of their choice to unperson, this blog links to the last entry on Necrologue that mentioned them, instead of naming them.
• Moderation-triggered
• Edit-Blocked: The user is prevented by Quora from writing answers or comments on Quora for a fixed period of time. By default this is a week; longer periods of censure are indicated in the post.
• Banned: The user is permanently prevented by Quora from logging in to their account. Signalled on their profile by a red banner, “this user has been banned”.
• Unbanned: The ban on a user has been rescinded by Quora.

It’s been a “busy” month, readers, and it’s not letting up. 😐

https://necrologue.quora.com/201…

Stephen McInerney has once again made a helpful suggestion about formatting on this blog.

Until now, archival events (which happened more than a fortnight before reporting) were titled by the date, followed by “archival”.

From now on, to make things a little more obvious, they will be titled by the date of the event, followed by the event of the report in brackets. For example, 2017–03–21, archival becomes 2017–01–16 (2017–03–21, archival).