It seems like theymos is likely even against showing which users are banned publicly (not sure why, especially when people are reporting dozens of users a day that are already permabanned and it's time-wasting for both users and staff to have to report and handle these).
If theymos is against of showing which accounts are banned, then maybe he make an exception for members that have 300 good reports at least? This will reduce an extra work for active reporters and moderators.
Is there any point in seeing who is banned? If someone has a problem with user "A" and he has reported user "A", just bookmarking his account URL or checking it from your PMs should be enough for you. Unless you have reported tens of users and you want to be updated on all of them! x)
Maybe read the post you actually quoted as to why it's a good idea. What is the point of both users and staff wasting time on reports for users that have already been permabanned? There's enough work to be done here already without having to deal with stuff that has already been dealt with. It takes a colossal amount of time and effort for people to report copy and pasters and provide all the evidence and then it wastes staff time having to go though them all needlessly. If the user was shown as permabanned then they can just ignore it. Once a user is banned here their account is done for so I don't think it's a big deal showing that. Many other forums show even temp banned users. It would be helpful in other ways too. You could be doing business with someone and they could just disappear without warning. If they've been banned then at least you'll know why they've mysteriously gone AWOL or are not responding to your messages.
But a system like that would either require a lot of manual work from the site's team in order to publish the account names (most of which would probably be bots) or it'd require resources to be spent on an automated system. In either case, I find it unnecessary.
It wouldn't. Staff can already see who has been banned as they have a mark on their profile so it will take little effort to make that publicly known.
It seems like theymos is likely even against showing which users are banned publicly (not sure why, especially when people are reporting dozens of users a day that are already permabanned and it's time-wasting for both users and staff to have to report and handle these).
If theymos is against of showing which accounts are banned, then maybe he make an exception for members that have 300 good reports at least? This will reduce an extra work for active reporters and moderators.
Possibly, but I suppose it depends on what theymos' reasons are for
not displaying that info.