jennyjoan - A suspension usually occurs if an AB'er is flouting
Site Rules and has ignored a warning from the Ed to pack it in. The suspension is to give the AB'er time to calm down and then come back.
A ban usually means that a suspension has not taught the lesson sufficiently, and the AB'er is not going to respond to requests to obey
Site Rules, and therefore has to go.
Some banned AB'ers re-surface with another name, but tend to end up banned again, with the leopard/spots interface coming into play.