[RussEfarmer]

My stance on stuff like this was different in the past, but today, I believe that permament bans should be handed out VERY sparingly. I think the name "permanent ban" has lost it's meaning, if you ban someone permanently, you NEVER want them to come back, and that ban will still be there in twenty years if they don't appeal it and the server still exists.

TTT alone has banned 10,000 people permanently. That is 10,000 unique players that can NEVER EVER join this server again unless they go through the appeal process. To put that into perspective, at the time of writing, there are only 17,000 people that have this game open right now.

The Compact Gamers community had a system where the maximum length ban you could issue was a six month ban. This was plenty of time for the player to be punished, reflect on their actions, or forget about the server, but it's not permanent, and if that player is interested in playing TTT again a year later, they won't find a ban message given to them over a year ago for something they don't even remember doing.

Now, two weeks for mass? Maybe a bit on the short side, I would personally opt for a month, but I agree that permanent bans are way, WAY overkill.