>>7
I think he's trying to parallel it with a "time out" in the corner.

Personally I think it's much more important to have that sort of information on the server end, i.e. this person was banned for flooding all the posts of the board with 100 new threads of guro pics, so later on when they whine about how they were banned and never posted anything you'll know they're full of shit. It's also useful in terms of keeping bans to a sane time length, since IPs change and someone completely different might be using that IP, and it's sort of silly to try posting on a board that you've never been on only to find out that you've been dealt an IP address that used to belong to some asshat last year and the site's admins never clear entries from the ban list.

But on the other hand the whole "you were banned for 1 day for posting "mudkips" in a no-mudkip thread" nonsense, and even more so the (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) that tends to go with these superfluous bans, is completely ridiculous, and the "advanced" mechanisms of boards like kusaba et al. only promote this behavior.