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[Dave Hicks]

(05-01-2015 05:00 PM)renif Wrote:  Nevertheless the question remains, wether a distinction between normal membership (i.e. not banned) and a temporarily banned one is really useful for the community in the first place. Pardon, for not having formulated that point precisely enough.

Well for users, it tells you that the lack of posting and/or PMs is probably not be due to death/illness etc. (People "on vacation" may not be able to use other features like PMs whereas people who simply have their posts suspended can.) For moderators, for whom most banned users are really spammers who get banned almost immediately, I think it could be very confusing if they banned them and they still looked identical. In fact I warned the other mods about removing the cross out and changing the text because I thought even that could cause confusion.