It looked, from my time in the slammer, that you type in a personalised message the person sees while banned?
Yup, there's a ban reason that should be showed along with any ban message. This is the same as the "Reason" column in the
public banlist.
If the former, couldn't you put something in there about how to appeal? Maybe on a case by case, for fly by spammers you wouldn't want to see them again anyway.
Right, that's just another way of asking for the same thing. I understand you might not agree with my reasoning, but it remains unchanged. We will not be
actively asking banned users to appeal their bans. You already have plenty of opportunities to discuss the warnings issued in advance, and if you
really want to keep pushing it, e-mail contacts are available. If you're too lazy to respond to an e-mail, then I'd argue you don't care so much about appealing your ban.
It's all well and good to say that we're open to being challenged, but at some point a decision needs to be made - we can't endlessly discuss every mod action undertaken, it's simply not practical. In a normal case, you will have already scored 3+ warnings and discussed them if you were confused or felt a mistake has been made.
If, in your view, we made 4+ mistakes in a row (3 bad warnings, some bad failed appeals, and finally a bad ban), then we're clearly fundamentally unreasonable and/or dishonest and you should move on. And if the 4+ actions came from you refusing to accept the rules, then
we would probably like you to move on.