[Battons]

I wasn't there for long but I caught wind of a 5 day turnaround time on unban requests.. what I've noticed happening a lot with recent unban threads is the thread sits with like one response for half a week and it gets bumped. Afterwards thread accumulates maybe 1 or 2 pages of responses, some of which I may want to add on to, but only maybe 4 hours later after the last couple responses the thread gets locked. I open up reply windows to stuff I want to respond to but leave in the middle of writing to go do something, and a lot of times I'll come back and post it, and the thread would have been locked like 2 hours ago. Annoying.

Basically what I'm saying is there are a lot of times where a thread gets locked only a couple of hours after some really good responses were made that people may or may not want to respond to. I'd like to see maybe 24 hours or something after the last response when you reach your "community feedback threshhold" before closing the threads. Has this been thought about at all?

Good question, we don't really have a community threshold to hit in terms of what we see. We like to let things sit for a bit to gain traction and read community input however it used to be annoying as a trusted+ to have to wait days to hear back from previous admins about topics and decisions. By responding to apps early we give more opportunities for applicants or appealers to try again sooner due to not taking so long the first time. It was brought up however that acting too soon on things may cause issues with this exact scenario you've presented and we haven't thought too much about it, but there may be improvement there depending on if that's the direction we decide to take.