What does the slash mean??

quasar987

What does it mean when a user has a slash over his name.. like rudinreader here:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=218899

Kurdt

It means they're banned.

RonL

What kind of ban ?
rudinreader posted today at 14:17

Kurdt

I don't know. Thats between rudinreader and the mentor involved.

Gokul43201

Then it stands to reason that he must have been banned some time after 14:17.

_Mayday_

Sometimes you see the name, but it is not in bold like all the others and something like post count will be n/a is this somehow related to a ban aswell?

_Mayday_

Also, sometimes instead of an avatar they will just have something in that gap that says for example "_Mayday_'s avatar"

Kurdt

When you register or change your e-mail you have to confirm the e-mail addresses existence and your name is not bold until you confirm it. Those with n/a in their post count were part of another forum that was allowed to post here I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

I'm guessing thats probably just people that have an avatar whose image is no longer hosted any more.

Defennder

How can we tell if the ban is permanent or temporary?

_Mayday_

Kurdt what do you mean another forum can post here?

Defennder I don't think you can actually, this forum is different to others where they talk abotu people bans, here it is kept between the mentor and the individual.

George Jones

sci.physics.research

Danger

I'm not sure about this, but I think that any ex-member is stroked through, whether banned or not. While I haven't checked, I suspect that the much loved Self Adjoint and Boulderhead, both deceased, are stroked out. Most of the time, the stroke means that someone was too stupid for his own good and got banned. We do have some members in good standing, such as the aforementioned, who are no longer here for other reasons.

_Mayday_

George, is the sci.physics.research is a completely different forum? Why would that mean their posts were n/a?

George Jones

sci.physics.research is a Google group, not a forum in Physics Forums, so a person doesn't have to register with PF to post on sci.physics.research, thus the n/a.

sci.physics.research existed long before Physics Forums existed. I used to spend a lot of time on sci.physics.research, but I haven't (much?) posted there since I started posting here.

It's available here because of the obvious overlapping interests.

_Mayday_

Ah, thanks George never knew that!

Evo

But you notice he hasn't posted since, that was his last post before being banned.

D H

Just to be pedantic, sci.physics.research existed long before Google existed. sci.physics.research is a Usenet newsgroup. The Usenet newsgroups date back to 1981. sci.physics did not exist back then; that had some other name. The current naming scheme dates bak to 1985. Google itself didn't even exist until 1998. "Google groups" are even later; they started in 2001 with Google's acquisition of Deja News. What about sci.physics.research? The earliest entry at Google groups is dated Feb 17 1993, eight years before Google groups came into being.