Quote from: BadBear on February 07, 2015, 01:40:06 PM

Quote from: Madness on February 07, 2015, 11:26:24 AM

Quote from: redsn0w on February 07, 2015, 11:21:52 AM

I've asked the same thing a few months ago , and this was the reply :

Quote from: BadBear on December 19, 2014, 07:27:43 AM

Modlog is two weeks.

Quote from: redsn0w on December 19, 2014, 06:51:54 AM

Maybe when an user is banned I think it easy to theymos add under the "rank coins" a little word: "Banned" ,

What do you think ?

Why do you need to know when someone else is banned?

Well to answer BadBear , it's pretty simple , Sometimes we want to contact someone (a friend) on the forums and we see them banned ... we just don't bother our selfs , also to make deals , let's say someone is selling something and he got banned (he left his BTC adress on the thread and asked to send BTC then he send product) .. so we just don't send Bitcoin while he is banned etc ... a lot of things , it would be really useful to be honest
Both Banning date , Banning reason should be also available on the Profile if you ask me

PS : Note sure if we are able to use private message while we are banned or not . speaking Theoretically

I wasn't saying there's never a valid reason to know when someone is banned, there are some. OTOH it could also be abused. For example, if you know someone is banned, then you could make a new account and impersonate them, or attempt to get them punished for ban evasion.

I'm inclined to think it's not really anyone else's business. If you were to get banned for posting granny porn would you want everyone to know that? People can usually still change their signatures and personal message (below the avatar area) if they want people to know they were banned, and why (though the why would probably be misleading).

Sorry for zombificating this thread but I think there are valid reasons allow a message in the profile page at least. I mean it is already possible to ask in the meta thread about why an account was banned. So a users is not completely speechless. He could ask to contact someone there too when he has taken loans or so.

So for the banned user it would not be a problem being banned. The problem is that account sales are allowed and accounts are taken as collateral often too. With collaterals it would not be a problem when trading without escrow but for normal trades without escrow the user would send the bitcoins first. The buyer would get a worthless account and that's it.

And I doubt the risk of being imporsonated is much higher then. There is a warning in every pm about newbies and even when an account is not banned it would be possible to impersonate practically the same way. Someone getting suspicious would not deal with such a person anyway so informing the real account owner would not serve much purpose.

I tried to compile a list of checks for users that want to trade an account without escrow or don't find an escrow for it. In order to lower the amount of scams. The info about a banned account would be a very important one and I was astonished to find out that I only could see if an account was banned because i logged in as an escrow to secure it. Normal buyers would not be able to.