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Can we please please please make it a policy to not extend a ban because someone dared to bother appealing it and defending themself?The current example would be sk upping robustins one day ban to a three day one - I think there have been a few in the past but I always argued against them as well and can't really be bothered to find the exact threads.
Irrespective of what they did to receive the original ban this is a highly toxic thing to do in a community because it dissuades people from appealing their bans even when they are particularly unjust or based on faulty information because you might catch an admin in a bad mood and just get more time added to your ban.
People should be allowed to argue their case without fear of further retribution - when someone continues to argue beyond the point of reasonableness the answer is to tell them that and then ignore future attempts to engage, not up their ban length. Also I find that the whole concept of someone being a "rules lawyer" is inherently silly anyway, it's not a crime to exhaustively detail and lay out your defense in a ban, and admins should at least respect the effort the person is putting in, if not the effect it has.
To me it seems like the admin team are no longer interested in justifying their own bans!
Anyway i hope you will consider it, it's not a good tool to have in the admin toolbox and in my opinon it's worth removing the ability to do so.