# Could someone be unbanned?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-be-unbanned/111669>\
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**Created:** [May 31, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-be-unbanned/111669 "2002-05-31T02:53:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-be-unbanned/111669/1 "2002-05-31T02:53:52Z")

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If someone is banned, is there any way for them to get unbanned?

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-be-unbanned/111669/2 "2002-05-31T03:43:02Z")

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Yes, contact one of the Admins and convince them to 'unban" them.

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**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-be-unbanned/111669/3 "2002-05-31T03:43:48Z")

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Has anyone ever been unbanned?

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**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-be-unbanned/111669/4 "2002-05-31T04:58:24Z")

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Yes, recently our friend **rjung** got banned due to a miscommunication between some of our Moderators, and was shortly unbanned. There are also older examples of posters who were banned for confirmed reasons and who subsequently had their posting privileges reinstated.

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-be-unbanned/111669/5 "2002-05-31T05:01:16Z")

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Yes. A couple bannings were reconsidered after some grovelling, or merely as new information came to light. I, for example, was once banned when some troll pretended to be my sock puppet. Most of the time I spent banned was due to sleeping in (as I recall, it was the day after classes ended, and a couple days before finals), with only ten minutes involved in clearing the situation up with the administration.

There are some situations where the administration has decided that a banning will be permanent. For example, if you make threats against the board, no amount of begging and pleading will get you back in. And that jackass who kept registering with other users’ names (before they patched that leak) will probably never be allowed back, under any circumstances.

The most recent example of an unbanning would probably be **rjung** , where the administration decided that they were a bit harsh, and really only should have given a warning.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-be-unbanned/111669/6 "2002-05-31T15:03:28Z")

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Now that this question has been answered, I will close the thread, because questions about bannings have a strange fascination for “problem children”.