I think that a person should be able to be banned for "disrupting the community", and I also think that Estel was certainly doing that. Complaints about the way things are run is one thing, but this went beyond that I believe.

So to keep things on track, we have a whole new structure now, so how about this:

1. TMO moderators/administrators can continue to ban and clean the normal spambots, etc... but when it comes to banning an actual user they must present a case to the Council.

2. Council (you know, the people we elected to run this community!) must vote on whether this ban should be done. Some portion (either unanimous or a high percentage) of Council must vote yes for the ban to be approved.

3. BoD is the appeal process. BoD is the check on Council, right? So this makes sense to me.

Typically, if you get a majority of Council agreeing to a ban, most of the time BoD is not going to reverse, unless there is some miscarriage of justice for whatever reason.