# How do the masses discover someone has been banned? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 20, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469 "2013-03-20T17:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/21 "2013-03-21T04:36:00Z")
After a quick glance at your list (mostly just for purposes of reminiscing) ISTM that someone should let \*\*drachillix \*\*know that he’s banned. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/22 "2013-03-21T11:45:51Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Dragged the thread title from one FF window into the message box of a second window. And that automatically did the link formatting? Huh, I never knew. Hm, on testing, it looks like that just drags the URL. Was there some other trick to that? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/23 "2013-03-21T13:50:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And that automatically did the link formatting? Huh, I never knew. > > Hm, on testing, it looks like that just drags the URL. Was there some other trick to that? Pretty sure that’s dependent on what type of “editor” you have selected in your settings in “User CP” - without looking, I think you’ll want the “WYSIWYG” one. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/24 "2013-03-21T14:54:09Z")
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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/25 "2013-03-21T15:13:40Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Pretty sure that’s dependent on what type of “editor” you have selected in your settings in “User CP” - without looking, I think you’ll want the “WYSIWYG” one. Yep. > [@Frank](#): > > Ah, good times. 😃 Dude, learn to edit quotes. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/26 "2013-07-13T19:31:25Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > After a quick glance at your list (mostly just for purposes of reminiscing) ISTM that someone should let \*\*drachillix \*\*know that he’s banned. 😛 It was just a temporary banning, I was simply knocked unconscious by the ban hammer, not actually killed. Of course rumors will circulate about of my rise from the dead for millennia. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/27 "2013-07-13T21:37:06Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > It was just a temporary banning, I was simply knocked unconscious by the ban hammer, not actually killed. Of course rumors will circulate about of my rise from the dead for millennia. Scuse me, but how can we really know that you were only knocked out? Maybe drachillix was killed and you’re an imposter? Or you’re drachillix and now you’re one of the “alternatively animated”? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/28 "2013-07-14T00:22:42Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > If it’s an established poster, there is usually an announcement posted as a locked thread in this forum. If it is just a sock or a spammer, they get disappeared without comment. I keep promoting the idea that we should put their heads on pikes, but I always get voted down. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/29 "2013-07-14T00:48:58Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I keep promoting the idea that we should put their heads on pikes, but I always get voted down. You have any idea what pikes cost now? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/30 "2013-07-14T01:08:39Z")
Besides, unless you find a wholesale source for pikes, you’ll never be able to afford what you’ll need the next time **Marley** bans _the entire board._ ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/31 "2013-07-14T14:43:01Z")
I thought that pike were gamefish in most jurisdictions and couldn’t be sold. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/32 "2013-07-14T14:47:18Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > You have any idea what pikes cost now? I heard the cost peaked. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/33 "2013-07-14T16:55:51Z")
What does [Captain Pike](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Pike_(Star_Trek)) have to do with this? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/34 "2013-07-14T17:29:02Z")
> [@](#): > > What does Captain Pike have to do with this? Blink. Blink. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469/35 "2013-07-14T18:05:44Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I keep promoting the idea that we should put their heads on pikes, but I always get voted down. goto Design “Straight Dope World,” a new theme park > **[Design "Straight Dope World," a new theme park](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=695672)** > > From the ground up. Funds are unlimited, and any location in the world is available. Where should it be? What features, attractions, entertainment, rides, exhibits, restaurants, accommodations, etc.? Family area, adults only area, teen section,... it could be a popular feature [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-the-masses-discover-someone-has-been-banned/653469.md?page=1)