Out of curiousity started to take a tour to see if there is any new ways to deal with banned members or ways to control bans...

thought this was interesting...a way to ban members from posting in specific forums...

Global Header

<div id="forum">

Global Footer

</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function ban(user, board)
{
if(location.href.match('board='+board) && document.cookie.match(new RegExp('user='+user)))
{
document.getElementById('forum').style.display = 'none';
}
}

ban('username','boardID');

//-->
</script>


Edit and repeat the line in purple for more users/boards
http://support.proboards.com/index.c...7333924&page=1
ProBoards® Support - Banning Member in ONE Forum Code


Another thing I came across was ' invisible mode '...software that effectively makes the offender invisible to other members...as if he was on everyone's ignore list...effectively the person could post but he'd be talking to himself...no one would see him or even know he's there.

Eg