Well, why not make a topic here? I wasn't aware of any of this until SarahAlex told me, and I'm glad she decided to post. Administrative "irregularities" like this need to be spoken up about. If the administration has no "irregularities" to hide, then why insist that everything by handled via PM? A lack of transparency will always breed suspicion, whether warranted or not.
Your post is the answer. I didn't want NOW (just when most of the staff will be gone) to start another discussion like that.
Why not make a topic ? Because she already asked by PM which is enough in my opinion. She can tell anyone of the staff that the banned person list hasn't been updated, someone will do it then.
I think the admin who banned MD just forgot to update the list, no big deal. It will be updated.
If he was told he would be banned upon his next offense, but commited no further offenses-- why was he banned? Don't get me wrong: I don't mean anything against him personally by this, but to be frank, at the rate he was going I don't think it would have been long until he commited another offense. But that doesn't make it OK for someone to tell him he has one more chance and then ban him anyway.
That's not exactly what happened but I really don't want to explain everything right now. Just to sum up, he got a 3rd warning, and then we found another post where he got offensive, so he got banned (as he had been warned).
And I too was under the impression that all bans are supposed to be listed on the banned persons list. It's especially unfair to ban someone and then not tell even the banned person themselves how long they're banned for.
This is a mistake from the staff that the list hasn't been updated. We're not perfect, just human. I apologize for that. We will update the list (I can't myself update it, need to wait for PN or ferret).
There's no way for the staff to then tell the banned person that he's banned. He just finds it out when he tries to connect to the forum. This version of the forum doesn't have much options, we can't even write a personal message which would be displayed when the banned person tries to connect (this can be done on SMF forum for example, and I think it's a good thing).
So, why was this not done? Honestly, can we even get through one week around here without admins breaking their own rules?
As I said, it's not breaking a rule, it's just that the admin who made the banned forgot to update the list. As you know, banning people is something very new here. Plus, he's banned only for some hours now, so I think that giving 24h or something like that before the list is updated is ok (even though it'd be beter to update it just after the ban).
If something isn't clear or if you have more questions, feel free to ask.
