"Archaic Bans"

[A Magpie]

if someone was secretly ban evading this entire time and got unbanned, you should be rebanned. defeats the point of being punished in the first place. why should anyone get sanctioned if we can just evade it

One could argue that the point of the ban is to correct the behavior. The admins do not want that behavior in their community and so ban the individuals that engage in it. If someone gets banned, but then is able to, while circumventing their ban, not engage in the behavior that they caught a ban for, then the ban served its purpose as a corrective action. The player's server assets are already forfeit and deleted as part of their ban so all of their existing progress is gone, no matter what. They have to keep their old identity under wraps as much as possible, they can't be familiar with their friends or they'll be sniffed out. They are still in effect exiled from the community, and proving they have improved their behavior beyond saying "trust me, bro" in their appeals is much stronger than popping back in six months later to say "I won't do it again." I'd say that viewing bans as a punishment at all makes them needlessly antagonistic. It's the cry of the tilted, the sore loser, the mildly inconvenienced: "I'm going to get you banned."