# Feature Request: Banned Users Prevent Promotion
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [7월 22, 2014, 5:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884 "2014-07-22T17:04:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@hb\_ryn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hb_ryn)
#### Post date: [7월 22, 2014, 5:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/1 "2014-07-22T17:04:54Z")
Would it be possible to prevent users who have been banned (at any point in time) from being able to be promoted beyond regular user?
It seems like a logical decision considering that a user who has caused enough problems for the community wouldn’t be fit for any handling of powers.
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### Author:  [@Air\_Cooled\_Nut](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Air_Cooled_Nut)
#### Post date: [7월 22, 2014, 5:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/2 "2014-07-22T17:06:35Z")
If they’re banned then how would they even be on and using the forum in the first place?
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### Author:  [@hb\_ryn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hb_ryn)
#### Post date: [7월 22, 2014, 5:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/3 "2014-07-22T17:09:42Z")
This is meant for users who aren’t permanently banned. After the ban, they continue being able to be promoted to leader/trust level 3.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [7월 22, 2014, 5:15오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/4 "2014-07-22T17:15:34Z")
So by “Banned” you mean temporarily Suspended?
I’ve seen long-time members that were good “go bad” and I’ve seen problem members “go good”.
The exception, true, but some people can change their ways.
I think if the promotion could be put into some type of Mod approval it could work.
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### Author:  [@hb\_ryn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hb_ryn)
#### Post date: [7월 22, 2014, 5:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/5 "2014-07-22T17:44:53Z")
> [@Mittineague](#):
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> I think if the promotion could be put into some type of Mod approval it could work.
That makes more sense than just going on as if the suspension never happened.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [7월 22, 2014, 11:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/6 "2014-07-22T23:09:28Z")
I was just thinking, this may be moot.
To get to TL3 one of the criteria is
> must not have received more than 5 spam or offensive flags (with unique posts and unique users for each, confirmed by a moderator)
If this is an “all time” count as opposed to an “in the past \_\_ days”, once a member has gotten 5 Flags they will never make it to TL3
@codinghorror is this the case?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [7월 22, 2014, 11:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/7 "2014-07-22T23:11:52Z")
From what I recall, yes it is the case and it simply means you need 5 posts, 1 flag on each post from 5 different users.
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/clarifying-the-flag-requirement-for-trust-level-3/17347/2?u=cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clarifying-the-flag-requirement-for-trust-level-3/17347/2)
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### Author:  [@hb\_ryn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hb_ryn)
#### Post date: [7월 25, 2014, 12:10오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/8 "2014-07-25T00:10:25Z")
If a user is blatantly posting negative content, it may never reach 5 flags before a moderator/administrator suspends the user. Which is primarily why I thought it would be a good idea for this behavior to exist in the first place.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [7월 25, 2014, 2:43오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/9 "2014-07-25T02:43:41Z")
All out tests only look at the last 100 days.
I think this is over complicating stuff for no real reason. If you ban a user they can not log in, they have no read times, they probably got flagged and so on. Not sure why we also need to check this and there is a rare yet real occasion of “self bans” (using site too often need a break) so we would need to look a ban disposition. ugh.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2025, 11:31오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-banned-users-prevent-promotion/17884/10 "2025-12-04T11:31:07Z")