Niall, I wonder if it would help matters if there was some way of indicating why a person has been suspended.
I suspect a lot of problems are created at the moment because when somebody gets suspended most people don't know why it has happened and people end up guessing, me included.
I don't know if it would make a lot of extra work for you all but if, instead of a person vanishing from the members list, they could be "locked out" and a short 'literal' added, say, "Suspended 1 week - Blanking swear word." or whatever the offence was.
Similarly, where somebody is, perhaps inadvertently, pushing their luck a bit far a pre-prepared PM could be fire off at them warning them to "back off".
If such ideas would take up too much time then put it straight in the bin.
On the other hand, if they could be done on a semi-automatic basis with a couple of key-strokes it might just save a lot of the guess work and questioning, some of which can't can't be easy on any of you.
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