The post above really explains most of it.
There's many reason why bans doesn't really have a proper place on the public boards. In general these sort of posts aren't needed at all and can easily take part in a private discussion over PM with a staff member. Not only has it been proven many times that letting lots of ban threads laying around cause a negative environment and look of the whole board since it is a less fun subject to talk about.. But in general, we as a staff do not wish to sit here and explain publicly why a user is banned, what they did, why they will not be unbanned, and let anyone join in on the subject and judge what they consider right or wrong when they're not the ones that need to deal and look over and into situations. Overall keeping it to private conversations will also give more freedom to the banned user at hand to how they want to tackle it, if they wish to just share it to just close friends, no one, or even the lots they can do so in other places. But here on the boards we want it to stay clean.
It really is more efficient and nicer if people just simply contact a staffer in private messages if they have any concern regarding a ban of theirs. In this case it's all down to common sense, and making the boards more friendly instead of a constant flow of random threads everywhere(or a board) talking about bannings and their reasons, and the information needed for a banned user is better explained through a private message if they need information regarding it.
With that said, this thread can be locked too.
