Ok, thank you for the clarification.No. The label goes away at the end of the suspension period. No scarlet letter.
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The "old" system used to be able to distinguish between "suspended" - which was temporary and finite (and on an ascending scale, if misdemeanours continued) and "banned" which was permanent.
However, the current system does not.
Yup, that was confusing for me as well when they switched systems (from VB to XF if I recall correctly).
It hasn't been said here but there's a way to see when I member was more or less suspended, just click on Find all posts, the last one should be close to the date the poster was suspended, this is for those posters that don't have their profile page available.
Typically if you treat others with respect, you'll not run afoul of rules. Moderation escalation is what typically occurs, i.e., when a member ignores the reminders from the moderation staff for a given violation and chooses to continue unabated. Suspensions are the next phase in the the moderation escalation process.
So its fixed right? Suspended means not coming back and suspended waiting room means a temp ban?
Appears so, looking at the FAQ suspended means it's a temporary "timeout" and banned means permanent, at least that's the way I read it.
But they changed those words. They don’t use time out anymore. For a while, they just used suspended for both banned and time outs.
I think it still says Suspended - I was going through old threads for fun and noticed several people had Suspended (and it had been this way since 2014). ?
No, unfortunately - some user categories are triggered automatically, but some are custom titles that we need to add manually. Personally I liked that particular aspect of vBulletin - - that it was easy to see who was only temporarily suspended, and who was gone forever. There was also a distinction between those who asked to have their accounts cancelled and those who were suspended for breaking rules, which XenForo doesn't have.
There are lots of things I like much better in XenForo, but those few details were much nicer in vB IMO.
I'm confused - I haven't seen that, and can't find it in the admin panel of the forum software. XenForo has one automatic indication that an account is temporarily or permanently in suspension.
If you see it again, it would be great if you could take a screenshot as well as noting the URL.
I have been suspended a few times. I don't see suspended under my user name. Is it something I cannot see yet others can?
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Now this is correct, unfortunately.
Once the suspension expires, the title reverts to normal (in your case, "macrumors 68040").
Seems both sides of the isle can agree, the rules are not consistent.
Your best bet is to use the contact us link with specific examples of what oyu think is a rules violation and ask the administrators to review. I'm making an assumption that those posts were reported to the moderators but the reports were rejected as a rules violation.