[Glenn.]

I cant see how it would be patronising. People get banned for a reason and nine times out of ten its behaviour in threads that causes bans to happen in the first place. That seems pretty public and available to the forum to me.

Its just people who have a problem with authority that see the wrong in it. Simple as.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Glenn

I cant see how it would be patronising. People get banned for a reason and nine times out of ten its behaviour in threads that causes bans to happen in the first place. That seems pretty public and available to the forum to me.

Its just people who have a problem with authority that see the wrong in it. Simple as.

You are right it is,any rule break is apparent on the forum. Why then have a comment to accompany a ban?
It's nothing to do with having a problem with authority, if you break a rule then yes you should be banned, all I was questioning were the comments.

[Redway]

To be honest, I'll think you'll find that the vast majority of posters like the ban list being updated - in a poll last year, 47 normal posters (not moderators) said they liked the ban list being updated, compared to the 5 who didn't like it. I honestly don't see any problem - if they don't want people knowing why they were banned (which isn't even true for most), they shouldn't have gotten themselves banned in the first place. If you don't like it, don't read it. You don't speak for the majority.

[Vicky.]

Reasons have to accompany the bans for a few reasons

1) Sometimes the reason for the ban happened off the main forum. Eg. Spamming someones PM inbox or something like that

2) Sometimes (and usually) the ban is not for any ONE reason. It is usually a build up of infractions...this must be stated in the ban list because otherwise people think 'oh XXXXX got a 1 week ban for just calling someone a wanker' and it seems a massively harsh punishment for the one thing they did on the day

3) In general...posts that get infractions/bans are deleted. So no, there wouldnt be a way usually to see why someone was banned, unless you were there at the time

[InOne]

I like to know who's banned and what for. I'm just nosy I guess.

[Vanessa]

I don't want to be on this list ever again!

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Probably not very nice to be on it for others to see admittedly but no one needs to be banned,we all just need to observe the rules and then all is well,no worries.
I think plenty tolerance is probably given before a ban is done anyway.

Exactly Joey.

And for the record I hate the ban list and I hate updating it, we only brought it back because almost every active member wanted it.