It looks as if I awarded meits to 15 subsequently banned members.

I don't think you have anything to be ashamed of (and that's not why I created this topic).

Help me to understand. All these members are permanently banned?

Yes. I don't have data on temporary bans.

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They were doing very well in the forum.

I was surprised by some of the banned users too.

but being banned doesn't automatically negate everything that user has ever posted, and some of their other posts may well be merit worthy.

All true

This is not a list of shame for good users, but I think it can be used to find merit abuse from "bad users" too.