Wait, Talk Elections used to have a methodical system for deciding when someone had to be permabanned?
. It behaved more like a guideline in practice.
What it was IIRC is any deleted post could be infected from 1-10 points, those expired after 90 days but if someone hit 50 total they'd be mod reviewed for like a week and at 100 would be fully muted and reviewed for a full ban. The problem is that people would constantly complain about being infracted and that their point infractions were too high, and it was pretty arbitrary and often based on the mod so it was eventually abandoned.
However I think jmf is one of only two posters who was actually banned under the system based on his points, other posters banned at that time were banned just due to overall behavior patterns regardless of points (like Libertas most notably), I think a troll named Derek is the only other poster to hit 100 points "naturally", (there are others but those were ones like blatant spammers and socks the mods intentionally gave 10 points to on every post to force a mute.) He returned under a sock called barfbag and I think might've had a few others but hasn't touched the forum since the Obama years.
