RIP Public Ban Appeals

[Leeanei]

Just to be frank, we've had people be too nervous to appeal little things because of ban appeal popcorn people meanwhile the guy who was banned for a too on point necrophilia joke appealed very proudly. The deterrent only worked on people who felt shame. The shameless were totally unaffected, which is not an ideal system at all.

I will say just on a gut feeling we are banning more people than we used to right now. Rules are still being enforced, people are still being shipped out for racial slurs. The only real difference is we haven't had any grand standing appeals since we made it private. It's definitely a more transactional forum now than before we'd have some person pushing 2-3 pages of raw hubris onto the forum.