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Originally Posted by kalipygian  The workaround for stating the reason for banning in the case of underage members could be simply stating that they had 'falsified date of birth' in their registration. Or just 'falsification of registration information'. ( I have no idea how moderators can be certain, in many cases, of a person's age)
I have not seen a persuasive argument presented that there is need for secrecy in any other catagory of banning.
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I am going through reading these as well. And wanted to make a comment on the underage. I am not the brightest light bulb when it comes to being able to "google" different kinds of things on the Internet. I do know that it might be inappropriate to have a list of all banned underaged as those who know how can take that list and make it much easier to identify and contact those underage particularly if they left an e-mail address laying around.
As far as just putting banned underage on the avatar, I don't know if that would put them at greater risk or not. I would have to find out from Internet experts in identifying people. I haven't read the rest of these and someone may have already suggested this, but I am in favor of being able to put Suspended, Temporary Ban and/or Banned on the avatar. Suspended would just mean that posting privledges are suspended because there is something the mods are investigating and feel it is urgent enough to stop the poster from posting until the investigation is complete. Temporary Ban is self explanatory. I don't think there is a way to put how long the ban is on the avatar though. Maybe that could be put in the profile somewhere - one day, one week etc. If the reaason for the ban is going to be made public, I would think somewhere in the profile would be the best place.