Hello. My name is not important. I found this post (see below) on a cached livejournal page from approximately one and a half years ago. I'm not sure of the author or what type of website they ran (or what he was taking!), but here you go. The archeology team (think Indiana Jones) here at BannedMe.com went through a lot to get this. May it be just what you're looking for...

A webmaster's diary...

Dear imaginary diary. When I look back and reflect on all the people I've banned on websites I operate or participate on in a moderator fashion, I can't help but wonder what was happening in their real life that led them to the behavior online that got them banned.

Semi-anonymous status online makes normal people into monsters - like the Incredible Hulk or maybe Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde if you're more literary and well read. Seriously, though, even the shyest most timid and meek geek out there that signs up with the username imallthat2000 and thinks the rules of the civilized world somehow don't apply online.

Why is that, diary? Why does anonymity cause people to step over the line and end up being banned? Is it something in the water? The fact that it's water and not a sports drink with electrolytes? Exactly what are electrolytes, diary? I always wondered but was afraid to ask.

Anyway, when I think about all the disgusting troublemakers I've banned over the years, I sometimes imagine them in a television show playing in my mind that mixes Survivor, Divorce Court and the Jerry Springer Show.

Now, before you think I'm a total loon, I don't always imagine this. Usually just once or twice a day. I mean week. Once or twice a week.

It would be a cool idea, though, I think. Because if they've been banned online, they would be a trip in an online show that would vote them off one by one. Perhaps the sole survivor at the end (who escapes Judge Jerry's Hammer of Banishment) gets to come back from being banned to start over.

And maybe by the third season so many being are being banned just to try to get on the show. Which causes a huge backlash in the collective Blogger Voice. And my websites get Digged and Slashdotted and I appear on Larry King Live and Anderson Cooper's show (that's still around, right?)

But I decide to do another season with only people who have been banned while using their real name online. And something happened. When people began signing onto my websites with their real names, they stopped behaving in a way that would get them banned.

Sure, some wanted on the television show to get their fifteen minutes of fame, but these were usually the type of people that would be banned in a world without my crazy fake Reality Game Show.

I don't know. Sometimes I wonder why people act the way they do online and don't expect consequences. Like I don't dare ban them because they have some unwritten right to do whatever they want wherever they want on the Intrawebs.