Controversial PollAll Ban

On January 21st (in the relevant time zone) PollAll, a very active member of KhAnubia was banned by Happyboi, right after rejoining after a kick. Mark, the other moderator online, had seemingly no problem with the ban. Immediately after he was banned, there was an even split between supporters of the ban and protestors. Nlapin and IVaV were the first two to protest against the ban, demanding reasons from the staff and trying to debate the legitimacy of the ban. The staff were vague and didn't give detailed or even sensible reasons. "he was essentially a Tal 2.0" was the reason given by Happyboi and Happyboi refused to elaborate further, causing confusion. Glitterhoof, a Promagistrate tried justifying it by saying "if you want to we can prolly retroactively find a specific message that was bannable; but it's pointless; since whether we justify it or not he's banned" and "we've banned countless people for just being rude in general", referring to past people like Talthiel and Wilhelmine. IVaV argued that PollAll hadn't received any warnings, and Nlapin proposed the staff just wanted him gone so they banned him. Suggestion #1288 was created by Nlapin to, summarized, let people contest staff's decision to unban someone. The suggestion at the time had 3 upvotes and 3 downvotes, not including KhAnubot.

Just 28 minutes after PollAll was banned, Nlapin saw no hope in the server and left out of protest. Few, if any, took his message seriously. IVaV continued to support PollAll through questioning the staff and creating a link with PollAll so PollAll could be informed.

As morning brew over Southeast Asia, where majority of active server members lived, the public support shifted heavily towards PollAll. Whyrezd, Prometheus, Galanthus, Taffee, SonicVenom, Theroman, DrWhoFanJ and Ryan all expressed support for PollAll and Suggestion #1288 had 16 upvotes and 7 downvotes, with 2 undecided. A debate between Happyboi and Glitter on one side and all the PollAll supporters on the other ensued in #general and #server-suggestion-discussion. Glitter asserted that "there were actual reasons to ban the guy; they simply weren't verbalised" and Happyboi kept asserting that staff had discussed this numerous times, which Prometheus and Erate confirmed to be misleading. The leadup to the ban was just Happyboi trying to convince MarK to allow the ban, which he succeeded in likely with out-of-context screenshots of homophobia, and Glitter helping Happy's case, and no other input from any other staff.

A petition was created by Nlapin to unban PollAll, which was spread heavily by Theroman.

After a rather quiet third of a day where staff voted on unbanning PollAll and no discussions on him took place, PollAll was unbanned on the 22nd of January, 2022. He immediately joined back and hence the end of this crisis that befolded KhAnubia. However, he was banned from entering #politics chat. On January 23rd Nlapin returned to the server.