I’m sorry if this has been answered before, but I know I’ve come across at least one banned poster that has “guest” under his name instead of “banned.”
Is there a possibility such banned posters can sneak back in and pay the $14.95 fee and be full-fledged members again?
Bannings are sometimes revoked, in which case the status would revert to what it was before the banning.
No, it’s a glitch in the script Jerry runs to convert expired member subscriptions.
Every few days the script runs and sweeps the system for expired subscriptions. When it finds one, it changes the user title to “Guest.”
At the same time, it apparently changed some of the BANNED user group titles to “Guest” as well . . . but they’re still banned.
I can’t quite see the use of changing them back if it’s going to happen again, which it probably would as soon as that script ran again. No harm done, in any event.
your humble TubaDiva
So it’s just a naming glitch, but they’re still banned? Thanks for clearing that up.
I presume these banned people have non-posting Guest status. As such they couldn’t cause any trouble.