i had a couple other ideas last night,
one is kinda like the above but its a little button that when you click it it replaces all of that users post's with "this post is hidden, click here to view"
the other is kinda like the rating system on FP, and that members have five stars under there avatar that drop as they get lower rating's, ban's also lower the ratings too, the longer the ban the lower the rating, perma bans drop the rating to bottom, and as the ratings drop they start losing privileges (spelled right? best thing fire fox gave me), like pming and attaching/posting pictures, you can like also click on a star to give your rating of a person, but you can change your rating (for example, look at ladios, he used to be really nooby, we would of given him low rating's right? but know hes grown up, made some neat state edits, wouldn't be very neat if your rating was stuck at 1 for the rest of forums life?)
whew.... i talk to much when i feel like it..