None of this should really matter. At the end of the day, the company is being hostile to you. Bans, and shadowbans, and appeals, and appeals to appeals... good

None of this should really matter. At the end of the day, the company is being hostile to you. Bans, and shadowbans, and appeals, and appeals to appeals... good grief! They're telling you they don't like you and they don't want you around. Why do you care so much about the mechanics of the automation they use to tell you to go away? Life is too short. I remember I was banned from Fark once. Remember Fark? I was actually a paying member, too! It was the last time I visited or even thought about the site (until writing this comment). It didn't even remotely occur to me to try to understand the banning mechanism or what appeal options I have. I'm not going to grovel and beg some stupid website to let me back in if they don't want me around!