[TDawg4]

I mean we have people who have been community banned "forever" and come back to become staff.

This is because people change and are able to prove it on the server. Coming back after a year+ of inactivity, the only thing people remember him for is what he said that got him banned from the forums. Not to mention I've heard plenty of complaints of him trolling and being a nuisance when certain staff aren't online. I don't know how much truth there is to that, but considering he does have a very recent slur baiting warn, I'm more inclined to believe it than not.

"This is because people change and are able to prove it on the server. Coming back after a year+ of inactivity, the only thing people remember him for is what he said that got him banned from the forums"
I think this is a really good point; someone being away makes away makes any possible change not visible, and on top of that people will remember the last thing you did.
What kind of timeline would you look for someone to prove themselves different? How many months of "good behavior" proves a real change. 

I asked Jack about the slur warn, and from what I can tell he made a bind of what someone said that day who were not warned, and to my knowledge he removed the bind/has not done it again in the 16 days since. Also the slur bait was the name of a player who was not told to change their name. Most people I see that are trolls or are slur baiting cannot help themselves and quickly runup against their warn limit and then tone it down. 

"I've heard plenty of complaints of him trolling and being a nuisance when certain staff aren't online." 
I would actually love to hear more about this. I think this sort of thing would change me to a -1 if he is acting like some of the other "trolls." Tbh the mic spam taunting staff from some of the people I play games with super bothers me and that sort of stuff is the opposite I would expect from someone who wants to be good staff. (I recognise they don't want to do that)

The hard part of providing a Timeline for someone is that they could fake it until they reached the end. Not really sure what to do about this, and at this point i pretty much take people at face value as long as their actions back it up. 

If someone who wronged me wanted to be more responsible and take a staff role I would expect them to apologise to me. Honestly, waiting another month to appear more "genuine" seems more manipulative than just being upfront about all of it. Not really sure what the right way to feel about this is. Seems like a lose lose for the person who was wronged.