What are the various stages of PPR?

[Ron Obvious]

I think I understand. An ordinary user PPR'ed will simply have their posting privileges revoked, but their previous posts stay up if unhidden.

If a user is removed by MIRT, all their posts are 'auto-removed', but responses are not.

I notice that there is one further category, and that is 'name-removed' as well. What did they do? It must really be bad...

Or did they use an obscenity for their name or something like that?

On edit: don't tell me 'Name removed' was just their username? D'uh!

[ManiacJoe]

1. name-removed and auto-removed go together.

When the post is auto-removed, the author's name is changed to name-removed.
At least that is the way it seems to work.

[Ron Obvious]

2. But not always

As I noticed in this very group: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12566793

[ManiacJoe]

3. So much for that theory....

[petronius]

4. It's not really a hierarchy of offensiveness - it's just based on post count

Low-count newbie PPRs get names and recent posts automatically removed, but posts from long-term DUers get left after PPR. It's a tool for easily cleaning up spam and trolls: for example, if someone signs up with a username like cheappaydayloans.com and spams a web link across a dozen threads, they get automatically cleaned up rather than a MIRT member needing to do it all manually...

[Recursion]

5. The idea is that somebody who signs up with the username freehomeloans4u...

...won't have the three or four spam posts they get in stick around to be indexed by search engines (which can see through jury hides, incidentally). But if somebody who's been a productive contributor has a crash and burn, their pre-flameout posts don't go away. (Before this, MIRT had to go manually delete spam.)