When giving infraction points, an email is sent to the receiver with reasons for the points; you don't get banned out of nowhere

If the receiver disagrees with the points received he/she can bring it up with the mods stating his/her case. Also these points expire in 30days so its not as if you got points a few months ago and they come to haunt you today if you didn't receive any in the intervening period.

The forum rules are actually very much in favour of not handing out bans or long-term bans if you see the infraction points breakdown.

Let's put the anomalous case aside and see there have not actually been many bans due to the way the rules as well as the lax moderation that takes place.

When a moderator hands out infraction points he too has to give valid reasons to the others especially those higher up in the chain of command and its all recorded so you don't get one gung-ho mod spoiling things for everybody.

Even things such as deleting threads requires much thought so its a bit of an over-reaction to think bans etc are commonplace.