I will start by saying that this thread is not the place to be having this discussion, so consider this post not only the end of it, but a warning to anyone else who continues it. If you still have a problem with Goodnightmoon's ban after reading this, by all means bring it up with one of the head mods, or PM me if you just want to ask a question. Thanks.
First things first, if you're going to criticize a ban, at least read the ban note first. If you have, you'll know that he was not banned for saying FF15's characters look like they're in a boy band. Quite frankly, they do. What Goodnightmoon was actually banned for is baiting, due to the implications the first half of his comment carry, coupled with the context of his history.
Now, that last part is particularly important. On its own, made by a user with a clean history, that post likely wouldn't have resulted in a ban. It would more than likely have thrown the thread off track, as comments like that usually do, but if we believed the user's intentions were innocent and that they didn't know the kind of nonsense such comments create, they wouldn't be moderated (we'd just try and clean up the thread itself). This isn't the case here.
Goodnightmoon has a fairly long history with comments like this, and we've seen those comments derail several threads. Regardless to if it's his actual intention to do so, he has been warned about it numerous times (both directly and indirectly) and so is well aware of the kind of effect such comments have. Because of how often he has ignored such warning, after some discussion we decided that it was about time we started being firmer with him. Thus, he got a harsher moderation than the comment alone would normally entail.
We have no problem with people expressing controversial opinions, but we do have an issue with people consistently expressing them in a way they've been warned derail threads. Whenever you see someone has been banned, remember that we consider the user making a post as much as the post itself.
