Question to mods [Archive] - Rolex Forums

Launch Mini

11 July 2007, 04:25 AM

Not trying to ruffle any feathers, just curious.
Some members that have been "banned" still show with a member name & Banned underneath.
Others show as "Guest" with banned under.
Is there a difference or is this just old vs new software?
Thanks

C.J.

11 July 2007, 04:48 AM

You know, it's kinda funny, John. But, aside from a couple of threads with some pics of your vacation and a joke or two here and there, You only post in a very few threads in reply to a small handful of members or if the thread involves Panerai. Yet, now you decide to become a little more active and post this.

Leave it alone, John.

astcell

11 July 2007, 04:51 AM

He has over 3,500 posts!

hutchman

11 July 2007, 10:16 AM

and maybe thats why John posts in the Watches (non-Rolex) Forum and not in the Rolex forum.

amanda

11 July 2007, 01:16 PM

And probably also because if you dont own a Rolex on The Rolex Forums, then there might not be that much you can respond too.....

Geez... whats going on here???

I think his question is completely legitimate. I tried to PM one of my buddies on here and I cant now... I'd like to know what happened too.

Gedanken

11 July 2007, 03:16 PM

You've got me stumped, John. I don't know enough about the ins and outs of vBulletin to know how or why this would happen.

In any case, if a member's been banned, the name that shows up doesn't really matter since the account's no longer active. I'd be concerned if it was doing that to a live account because it might affect a member's ability to post properly, but for an inactive one it really doesn't make any net difference.

Launch Mini

11 July 2007, 03:34 PM

You've got me stumped, John. I don't know enough about the ins and outs of vBulletin to know how or why this would happen.

In any case, if a member's been banned, the name that shows up doesn't really matter since the account's no longer active. I'd be concerned if it was doing that to a live account because it might affect a member's ability to post properly, but for an inactive one it really doesn't make any net difference.

Thank you.
My initial question, reading it again was not 100% clear.
To summarize,
I noticed under one persons old posts, his User name was still present.
Under the others posts, it appeared as GUEST.
I was surmizing that possibly one was a permanent ban , the other temporary.
Nothing further.
Thanks