Sorry mate, my stunted comment was meant purely in jest, hence the multiple winky faces. My apologies if you or the Team took any offence, you're absolutely correct in that I do know exactly how long the Team debate these issues: Honestly folks, they do really go over and over this stuff!
I'm still fairly fresh to this mod life, and trust me the discussions are heavily interrogated, but at the end of the day no action is taken without sufficient warnings and discussions with said member to rectify issues.
To be honest, the depth in severity when issues crop up surprise me, these aren't silly little issues. The team will at the last resort ban a member when the "mark" has been well and truly overstepped. In which the ban is justified and unanimous.
Don't forget for every member banned, we get interrogated for our reasons, which can be equally a headache.
We are moderating the forum to be a respectful place, and won't tollerate unacceptable behaviour. Whether this be publicly on threads or via PM communications reported to us.
If at anytime somebody is banned, by all means contact them, and if they're a man about the situation they'll give you the truth.
Maybe we can move forward and respect that we sometimes have to make decisions which conflict with opinions which may not be agreed by all.