if you get 3 warnings on your account, your group is changed to "Purgatory", and in that rank you can only see a special board; all normal boards are hidden for you, and your sig and av are overridden by the one the rank uses. You're there until you can convince the staff you're fit to return to the main boards - plenty have come and gone there,
this kid came here after being sent to said rank. The only time you're truly banned is if you evade, hack ingame, are completely intolerable, or post warez. We've actually not banned people there that have been far worse than Maverik has been here.
For the case of attention whores, they go to "Solitude" instead, which is a custom-crafted Purgatory where the only people there are that person and the staff (they can see and post in both Purgatory and any Solitude).
