This boils down to a few factors relating to the original appeal.
- Was it fair to permaban somebody for second offence violent greytide and first offence no warning metafriending.
- Was it fair to deny this permaban appeal.
- Was the appeal really denied, subjecting the ban to the 1 year cooldown.
The first question can't be addressed in an admin complaint, the proper venue for that ends at ban appeals.
The second question (technically) can however:
The crux of this boils down to timing. While a headmin or the banning admin
could have decided to reduce the ban to n months given the downgrade from metacoms to metafriending, It doesn't make sense in this case to suggest that they
should have done so. So in that light its not unreasonable to think that this is an appeal that likely would have been appealable after a longer period of time, but is not on its face something likely to be successfully appealed ~1 day after the ban.
The third question you might have noticed was suspiciously worded. The 1 year rule serves to hold off a flood of repeated and equally poorly designed appeals, and encourage people to make a good appeal and to put some thought into their appeal rather then throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. While it doesn't state so in the rule, it doesn't make sense to apply this rule to an appeal that was successful in part, even if it didn't result in an unbanning.
Additionally, downgrading part of the ban reason from metacomms (a more serious offence) to metafriending opens up an interesting question: Would the user have been more willing to accept the ban as reasonable and wait the proper period of time before appealing that would have ultimately stood a chance at succeeding if it had more accurately reflected the truth of metafriending in the original reason?
For those two reasons I'm going to ask hulk to strike out the part of his response to the appeal that says it may only be appealed after 1 year, but uphold the rest of their decision.
Note: This is the kind of ban that is more appealable the more time the user has off of /tg/ in good behavior at other servers, zemsta is advised to think carefully about how and when they want to re-appeal.
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