Well, are we talking about temp bans or perma bans? A temp ban may often be appropriate but perma bans should really only be done after unexcusable violations of the rules of after several temp bans. A to heavy moderation of the forums can destroy the awesome Forumwarz community. A certain degree of trolling and dumb****ery is part of the game – just not in Game Discussion.

Also some people just have nothing worthwhile to contribute to Game Discussion but that’s not necessarily a reason to ban them also from the Role Playing forums, so I suggest that (if that is technically possible) they should still be allowed to post in the Role Playing and their Klan forums. Maybe there are other, less rigid consequences for violations of the rules, like not to get forum visits for a week or exclusion from domination – of course such punishments wouldn’t discourage all people because they are not that interested in these parts of the game. Here the Mods would have to show judgement.