It's easy to tell the difference between who's banned and who isn't.

Firstly, someone only pretending to be banned will have a signature, actual banned users won't have one available to see.

Secondly, if they didn't have a sig anyway, you can just click on their name and see if a button to PM them is there - if it is, then they aren't banned.

Not that it matters hugely in my opinion.

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