>>>I have just noticed this. As a PUTM, I enjoy the benefit of searching the archives. It seems I cannot search for these banned members. This to me means a lot of content (good or bad) is out of my reach, other than blindly stumbling upon a thread where they participated.
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>>>When did this change occur? And for what reason?
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>>Try to search by member id = '0000000'
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>"This member ID does not exist."

I guess these members are marked as deleted.