Banned?

[Railsplitter]

This is the most epic flameout banhammer thread I can recall from the past few years, in terms of sheer stupidity. At one point as this was ongoing, there were something like 700 people reading that thread at once!

Somehow I missed that one but your comment reminded me of this:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/lotta-balls-taught-smack.1247339/

 

[PirateSeulb]

Is there a way to find out why a person was banned from this forum?

Yes and no I don't think there is any sort of absolute public listing of bans and reasons but often if you look through the content of a banned user you might find clues to what sent them out the door. The clues might be in replies after some of their remarks. Depending on it sometime the offending content is removed so leaving behind nothing to indicate their actions which earned them a boot.

I'm also curious how the banning process itself works- for example, what keeps a person from continuing to post even if they're banned. Can't they just sign up under a different name?

How/If you can return from a ban is determined by the type/method of banning and if the ban is permanent or temporary. I will warn that ban evading, finding a means to circumvent the ban, is usually an offense that results in a harsher ban.

I will say from my observations here on BF the mods are very forgiving and will allow you a lot of room to stumble and make mistakes before than start to give you your lashings which comes before they give you the boot.