A line through a person's name means they're currently banned, yes?

Not knowing what 'being a dick' is is being a dick.  I'm banning you from the non-existent (and never will exist) kpdebate.org.

But i'm adding extra rules:  you can be banned for spelling 'lose' as 'loose', using the wrong form of there/their/they're, and omitting the u in colour.

I am suer you already bsh1 doesn't want it because it would cause mobs or something so I guess you would have to make a convincing argument to him or debate him if you really feel like you have the better position if that is allowed. I would like a public ban log myself but guess it would be too much hassle for Virtuoso and bsh1 to deal which is why they are opposed to it and of course mobs starting to form insulting banned members or who were not permanently banned but I don't really see that problem when I insult people who don't understand what they are talking about. 

You forget flavour, favourite, savour, valour, and spelling grey with an e instead of a.

What about a public ban log that listed recent bans and offenses, but no usernames? Might be a nice balance between transparency and privacy. People should easily be able to put together what offenses go with which recently banned users, but you're still not displaying personal names on a public "wall of shame."

Virtuoso has actually been in support of a public ban log for a while. But there's been concern that it would encourage public shaming, as you mentioned, and compromise the banned member's right to serve their ban quietly and return in relative privacy.