[Suggestion] Allow banned members to access the private Q&A section.

[Inch]

On almost every other service, internet or otherwise, that I've used, once a user is banned they are given a chance to appeal that ban during the duration of that ban, and should the appeal prove successful, the rest of the ban will be lifted. I had assumed that this was what the private q&a section was for, but apparently not, as banned users are not able to access even this forum.

This straight up does not make sense since the pm that you receive upon getting an infraction instructs you to only post your issues with an infraction/ban in the private q&a section. Like, the only time that they'd be able to do so is when they're unbanned, and even then the only purpose would be to remove the infractions. If the appeal were successful, you would still have sat a ban that you didn't deserve.

And since someone will mention making an alt to pm admins, that is, as far as I'm aware, strictly prohibited, and would likely result in more infractions.

 

[Pekoms]

It's not necessarily a bad idea, at first glance, but there are issues inbound with it. To start, most members aren't just banned right off the bat, rather, they usually end up banned due to an accumulation of active infraction points. Now, even if one has an active point and then gets, say, a two-pointer (1-day ban), that's just a single day of no NB usage. Yes, the staff can make mistakes at times, we are not infallible, nor are we omnipotent. Still, letting banned members have the capacity to post in a section means that there'd be no way to reign it in, should it come to be abused by trolls and the like. At its easily foreseeable worst, the section would become useless as banned accounts of members and their alternative accounts could simply spam the section to no end. Also, if they're already banned, what more could the staff do to them in such an instance? Deletion of accounts is undesirable. Lastly, going to Zise or another admin, if you know an infraction/ban is truly unjustified is your best bet. Normal moderators cannot reverse infractions, that is a feature afforded only to global moderators and admins, so, one of them will have to deal with the issue anyhow. The admins aren't going to ban an account for correctly pointing out an unjustified infraction, so long as it's surely unjustified and there's no doubt.​

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