[Seeker]

So, a thing I thought of when going through all this. I think community bans as a whole need to be looked at a lot more intently with this whole fiasco. The whole "for having an opinion" is a meme but from this recent thing a.bad precedent has clearly been set. Community bans should really only be reserved for the absolute most heinous of offenses in my opinion. Anything illegal or encroaching in real life (DDOS, dox, swatting, pedophilia, etc) or enough real, documented offenses of clearly targeted harassment (not disagreement, not argument, but harassment, such as attacking someone's character or making threats and personal attacks against them and not stopping). By lowering the standards for what earns a community ban the administration will be perceived as untrustworthy and overly ban happy. But there are plenty of other steps well before community ban that could have been taken in this case and I hope that for the future they don't happen so readily and steps to address issues are taken first

This is something I'm gonna say makes the most sense out of anything. An over arching community ban is serious (much like any perm ban), and should be reserved for something serious, when all other options have been laid out. The fact that people with so much staff experience (and even current admins) have presented so many other ways this could have been handled, in my mind, says that this wasn't serious enough to warrant the outcome we're left with.