I was envisioning a scenario in which people who were actually banned were, instead of being unable to post at all, enabled to post in a specific thread and sort of “earn their way out” rather than being unable to participate in the forum altogether. In other words, a mod-enforced jail thread as an alternative to outright banning. Everyone would be free to visit, but temp-banned users wouldn’t be able to post outside the thread.

It was just a hypothetical, to be clear, not a suggestion for what we should do with this thread.