Color-Coded Bans: An Educational Feature Request

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I recently returned from a 3-day suspension. My offense was diagnosing another user’s rhetoric as that of a “Jesuit pervert” (a precise philosophical observation of his method, to which he didn’t even object). As expected, the ban notification I received via PM was a purely generic message.

This highlights a structural flaw in the forum’s management: generic bans completely fail their educational purpose.

If a suspension is intended to correct behavior rather than just blindly punish, the user needs to know exactly where the line was crossed. Forcing a user to guess which specific sentence or word triggered the moderation teaches absolutely nothing.

I am 100% sincere in proposing a simple technical solution to this: The Color-Coded Ban.

To make moderation genuinely educational, the software should simply highlight the exact faulty sentences in the user’s text using a specific color palette corresponding to the category of the broken rule. For example:

  • Red for direct personal attacks.

  • Blue for off-topic or low-effort content.

  • Yellow for specific forbidden vocabulary.

This provides strict, unambiguous educational value. It enforces precision from the moderation team and establishes clear, logical boundaries for the user. A simple, functional UI/UX upgrade and a 5’ prompt of vibe coding no?

Now, back to actual metaphysics.

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I actually composed a specific message when I suspended you. It should have been sent to you by PM or email or both.

I also wrote the public suspension reason myself.

The post in question had been flagged, and that’s where the distinctions matter: flaggers can choose from several reasons. Low-effort and combativeness are two of those. There’s no specified forbidden vocabulary; this is determined in context.

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actually the most precise information I got is :“Reason - Persistent personal abusiveness” so I guess it was the jesuisistic fun accusation on Delirium and some “finger-moon” amoeba type semi-harch critiques in the analytical philosophy thread. That’s why I proposed the color banning idea.

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and I thing a colorban system would be an universal progress for any forum, specially Reddit, that you can demonstrate on your system then promote everywhere

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It’s not going to happen.

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and it would be a good healthy thing for the mods too: do you know that dentists have the highest suicide rate?