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[clayfoot]

LiveJournal gives you a method to ban users from commenting on your journal, without removing them from your friends list. There's no indication to the banned user, until they try to post a comment. Then, and only then, LJ indicates the user has been banned by disabling the check box to comment with your own id:

Comments

[nolly]

Can it notice if they later unban you?

[clayfoot]

That's on the "to do" list, along with a routine that would scan your friends list to determine who had or hadn't banned you.

[pnh]

You mean, they only find out they've been banned after they compose a comment and try to post it?

If true, that's extraordinarily nasty; it punishes people harder the more time they put into composing a comment.

[clayfoot]

Depending on how you get to the 'Post Comment' button, that's exactly right. It's a waste of time for the banned commenter, and a needless waste of bandwidth for LJ.

[pnh]

This sounds like it was dreamed up by someone who can't imagine anyone spending more than thirty seconds on a comment.

What a thoroughly bad idea.

[mollydot]

Perhaps that's on the assumption that people are only banned for good reason.