The previous method would actually add the person to your memberlist, and we've put a stop to that to prevent people from just adding others whether they wanted membership or not.

Now you have to be invited and then accept that invitation by posting to be an official member. Or of course, on an open board you just post and then you are a full member.

But of course some people do have a valid need to ban certain usernames before they turn up. That is the admin's right to control their own community, no matter what the actual reason. And most people who have been banned from a community do not want to have that community listed in their membership list.

Those PM messages are not clear - I am hoping to get them editable by the admin as well, but in the interim I'll see how we can reword them.