This literally just happened.. no warning.. one week ban for something I can't even find in the chat rules. And it was one statement I made, not repeated. I've no issue with following rules, and if given a warning, that would not have been an issue.
But a ban, after no previous bans, no warning, nothing stating my action was not permitted.. not really on. While I entirely respect the decisions of the moderators (literally after defending them in the forum yesterday:)) I think they also need to treat users with a bit of respect. Literally 'you shouldn't do that in chat' would have sufficed.
Anyway, will lodge my appeal as per process.
But for the sake of everyone, I do think some sense needs to be applied to overseeing the rules. There's breaking the rules willingly, and then there's just ignorance when a rule seems to be 'unwritten'.