User blog comment:SpaceWeather/Eh I feel as though I should say a few things./@comment-4353921-20130725173102/@comment-1874924-20130726010714

The official policy--one that is clearly widely ignored--is that bans must be appealed first to the admin/chatmod who imposed the ban. In other words, admins/chatmods aren't supposed to second-guess each other because if they do, the troublemakers learn to play one off against another. Not only that, but if admins/chatmods can overrule each other without exceptional circumstances, that means that the most lenient mod wins and there's little or no discipline at all. That's pretty much what got us into this mess.