Perhaps you could slip in BANNNED, with three Ns.
Sometimes suspended users show up as BANNED if a mod/admin hasn’t adjusted the title yet.
Only admins can change the title “Banned” to the custom title “Suspended,” so if a mod bans someone it may take a little while until an admin can get around to making the change.
A couple of times I’ve seen a fresh spam post in a fresh thread, and the user has BANNED under their name. Then, a few minutes later, the post disappeared. What I found strange about this was – if the poster really was BANNED, why were they allowed to post in the first place?
They weren’t. They posted, got banned (which changed their title on all of their posts to “BANNED”), then had their thread deleted.
The reason it struck me odd was because it was a thread that I was refreshing a lot, so the banning must have happened almost immediately, and the erasure of the post must have come right on its tail, but not at the same time. I guess it was just a lucky coincidence.
You ban them first, so they can’t post more SPAM. Then you delete.
Yep. Marley or I might find a spammer, and decide to ban him before he can continue to post. It might take 30 seconds or so until we get back to remove the thread(s)/post(s).
Some of us are very very quick and can ban people faster than light itself.
Watch out, everybody–it’s a trap! There’re two of 'em!
I would have assumed that when banning someone based on a post a moderator would have the option of simultaneously checking a “remove post” button. Otherwise the process sounds dreadfully inefficient (I am assuming that most of the time you are both banning and deleting at the same time).
That is available if the “Delete Posts as Spam” option is chosen. The regular “Delete Posts” option doesn’t allow for that.