I am quite sure this is how banning works on CB. Some other sites do it this way as well. They put your IP address or the name/ email on the blocked list. And your post just goes into limbo and never gets published.
I think on Disquis you do get a message that you are banned, but it is not the case with many other ‘comments’ applications.
Yes, you are banned if you type a comment and submit it, but it never shows up.
If you submit it and it shows up ‘in moderation’, then you are being moderated, i.e. your comments are only let through after a review.
For May 3rd the most commented articles were the one about Hiddleston vs. Fassbender and then Brad &Angelina. The usual click-bait.
o I am surprised so many poster there don’t think Fassbender is handsome. As far as looks go he has a strong jaw and a proportionate face. I am not one of his fans but I think Fassbender is better looking and a better actor than Hiddleston. At the same time Hiddleston’s fans were very amusing with their over-the-top defense.
o Brad vs. Angelina - I see Kaiser couldn’t find anything to spin in his interview so she just left it for posters to rip him apart. And rip him apart they did. I don’t dislike either Brad or Angelina. They both seem like good people, so I am just going to stay away from this one and not take sides.
Three Trump articles for the day, we are getting desperate, are we?
A Kate Middleton article. There was one comment that got under my skin. The one that slammed Will for bringing up Diana’s death in the paparazzi trial. Who are the posters to tell whether he should be still affected by his mother’s death and the paparazzi behavior or not? I don’t necessarily like him and I am against the monarchy, but I know that this kind of trauma stays with people for their whole lives and I am not going to deny how it affected him just because I don’t like him. And people twisting themselves into pretzels trying to make it look like the pictures taken in France by the paparazzi are somehow Will &Kate’s fault, just stop. Laws are laws. You don’t argue against the laws and common decency just because you don’t like somebody.
Netflix ’13 Reasons’ show sounds like a big and dangerous mess. But I don’t watch, so no opinion there.
Susan Sarandon article – Celebitchy posters are Hillary supporters and Susan Sarandon committed an unforgivable sin of disliking Hillary and supporting Bernie. That means it is an open season on Susan Sarandon on the site. I think Susan Sarandon probably knows Hillary personally and is a better judge of who Hillary truly is than Celebitchy posters who don’t know either woman.
My own opinion of Hillary is very much in line with the post below. The only thing I don’t agree with is that it calls Hillary’s followers ‘bots’. Everyone is entitled to support whoever they like, it doesn’t make them a bot. Though acting that it is impossible for a rational person to understand why people don’t support Hillary even though other posters explained it over and over again does come over as willful denial.

I don’t think it is Kaiser. I don’t think she would pay any attention to me, some obscure blog which posts once in a blue moon.
Also, the writing style of that anon felt like she was pretty young, in her early 20s.