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banned by request?
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when a user is banned by request does this mean that the banned user asked to be banned or that another member asked for them to be banned?
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Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2000
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It would have to be the first one, someone asking for a timeout. A few people have asked for temp-bans when they needed to concentrate on work or school for a time. A few others have asked for themselves to be permabanned, for reasons I don't fully understand.
We generally don't ban a member on another member's request, even if you ask very nicely. Except for spammers of course. But those aren't real members, so they shouldn't count.
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It's not like the can't cave and re-register; but maybe the effort of doing so is a sufficient disincentive.
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you're right--it sure is a lot of trouble. makes my back hurt.
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awww, i thought this was a banme thread. those can be heee-larious.
if for some reason it is, go down in a ball of flame man. 
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Ok, so the next logical question is that if someone requested and received a perma-ban decides to want in again. Would that be possible? or is he required to re-register?
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AFAIK that has never happened. If it were to happen, we wouldn't mind if he registers again and starts posting again. I don't think the admins would mind unbanning the old account. (Obviously, this is only relevant for permabans on request, tempbans-on-request naturally expire.)
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Self banning is the internet version of suicide.
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Originally Posted by reader50 
It would have to be the first one, someone asking for a timeout. A few people have asked for temp-bans when they needed to concentrate on work or school for a time. A few others have asked for themselves to be permabanned, for reasons I don't fully understand.
Maybe I'm missing something here but if someone needs a self-admitted timeout, can't they just not navigate to the forums? They need a temp-ban to concentrate on work of school? Maybe they need a temp-ban from the internet. 
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Originally Posted by Gankdawg
Maybe I'm missing something here but if someone needs a self-admitted timeout, can't they just not navigate to the forums? They need a temp-ban to concentrate on work of school? Maybe they need a temp-ban from the internet.
Yeah, I would have thought that just not clicking their bookmark/typing "forums.macnn.com" into the address bar would have done the trick. Personally, I enjoy posting here, but it's not sufficiently enjoyable that I can't stop myself from doing it. Checking my email, however, is a different story...
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