[MichaelEmouse]

Sometimes, I notice that someone's been banned and I wonder why. I don't mean that I disagree, I mean that I genuinely don't know what happened that lead to a ban.

Would it be possible to have a Forum-related thread that says why a member has been banned? If anything, it would help newcomers get an idea of what the most unacceptable offenses are.

[stasis]

Originally Posted by Jezebel

No, we aren't going to start keeping public ban logs. The vast majority of bans are just spammers that get banned within their first few posts. I have other things I would like to do with the time I have to spend on the forum than getting into even more discussions about bans and justifying my reasons for every person who doesn't get to use this forum. If someone happened to be around long enough to make enough of an impression for people to care to ask, we'll usually answer questions about the circumstances. But otherwise, we're not going to go out of our way to draw attention to banned members nobody really noticed to begin with.

Originally Posted by stasis

Ban announcements tend to become spectacle, directly or indirectly. You've got users abruptly flinging their embroidery into the curtains as they beeline for diminutive threaded knots of crochet-spattered aprons and woolen sweaters, clucking furiously, trading bitterly the gossip for the day. The commonsensical whimsy says something like these matters shall become protracted "sometimes", the questions asked "occasionally", which would remain well and good if not for the fact that our common "sometimes on occasion" is really an empty reference to the temporal "each and every, with anger". Tending to an idle request as a matter of course makes that response expected, which in turn prompts the request to become less idle in the future. As a trend in forum subculture, such as it is, this can only crash and burn when moderators dare delay, let alone deny or respond at all. So, basically, enabling fishwifery isn't an effective way to deploy forum resources. We'll generally reserve this kind of interested hullabaloo for the permabanning of established users, who can possibly be missed even without the detonation of a signal flare to mark the event.

	Originally Posted by MichaelEmouse
	If anything, it would help newcomers get an idea of what the most unacceptable offenses are.

http://intjforum.com/faq.php?faq=conduct#faq_rules
We also have an infraction system to supplement that as users begin to establish themselves.