Memory hole: A new policy?

[Theophylact]

It seems that banned members and all their posts have disappeared from the forums and the member list. Is this a new policy? If so, it's a shame; a lot of their posts in non-controversy forums had good technical advice -- which is, after all, what most of us came here for in the first place. (I plead guilty to devoting too much of my time to Community forums, but I haven't had a lot of technical problems lately!)

[Whir]

Posts are only removed if we run the decimation routine, typical for ad spammers and the like. We can also manually remove posts, but typically don't without good reason. I can only think of one recent case where posts by a banned member were physically removed.

Not sure about the member list thing.

If you have a more specific question, feel free to PM me.