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> (It would be ironic if you had no idea you were banned and this was how you found out.) > I was careful to choose someone who knew they were banned These st

• sillysaurus3 10y ago
  It was a joke. Their name is HeavenBanned, so they're obviously fully aware of their situation. This subthread ended up being boring and cluttered up the main topic. If the mods have a problem with what I'm doing, they'll say so. In the meantime, you have both a downvote button and a flag button to employ. I think there was nothing wrong with what I did, right up until it spawned a useless subthread about whether what I did was ok. At this point it's worth detaching, which is frustrating: I really wanted to know the answer to the original mystery! Since I have to vouch a banned user's comment in order to ask them the question, there's no way to ask them without also spawning an offtopic subthread. I was hoping that people would see that it's an interesting subthread and worth giving some leeway to see where it leads. In general, it's ok for subthreads to veer off topic as long as it's intellectually interesting and substantive. Some of the most interesting comments are generated by that kind of process. But it's easy to push it too far, and it doesn't work if people get caught up in metaquestions.