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It's also strange that , from what I heard on the discord (I was told to post this here instead of this discord) there is a moderation team of 10 people for banning, and only 2 for unbanning. That doesn't really make sense when initial punishments are permabans for players, and it's not that I'm saying there should be more staff in the unban committee, but that there really shouldn't be permabans for initial players if there are too few players to handle unbans.

Not sure who told you this, but this isn't true, backwards, even. Only moderators have perms to ban, and there's only around 5-6 mods currently, excluding the 2 admins. For the unbans, trusteds and tmods are included in this committee, so more people have say in unbans than bans. Also looking at your ban request, the permanent ban given to you for mass/constant RDM was fitting.

Here's straight from the discord, what I was told, by a TTT mod! This is verbatim what I WAS TOLD. 

Ethan Today at 7:22 PM

Ban requests are handled by 10 people. Unban, by 2

So forgive me for using the information I was told!  Also shows another inconsistency between staff themselves (not trying to throw ethan or you under the bus, but it did just occur!) I didn't say I shouldn't have been banned. I've just pointed out potential issues in permabanning for initial offenses and suggested that there is a better solution, which you didn't respond to. Please read into what I said instead of dismiss me for being permabanned and "complaining".

On paper, yes, this is true. The 2 admins have authority to overrule the voting done by the committee. I personally have not seen this happen. The information given was not necessarily wrong, however slightly misleading. There are 16 people in total in the unban committee currently. There are roughly 6 active mods. 1 mod deals with each ban request, applying punishments listed in the staff guidelines, however given the circumstances, punishment time can be fluctuated depending on the situation, previous bans, etc or if they have trouble with it, they can ask fellow mods or an admin. In some cases, permaban is the first punishment, everything is dealt with in a case by case basis, every situation is different, and it should be up to staff to give the right response. It's not that staff aren't on the same page, information is just relayed differently sometimes.

I linked the staff guidelines above however I'll also link the global TTT ban page here if you'd like to compare bans to ban requests.
https://www.dinklebergsgmod.com/tttbans/