This section of the boards is fairly new, there wasn't anywhere to post about punishments before. That is why it seems like all of a sudden tons of people are getting punished. There are just as many, its just now they have somewhere to put it.
-Tract 
Deep Terror Nami1 votesI don't think that's the reason for the increase in ban threads.
I think it's because more people are getting banned.
Before the 4-step punishment system, toxic players could rack up hundreds or thousands of chat restrictions and they'd just not change. Now they get a max of 35 chat restrictions, then they move to a ban. The people who normally would have kept stacking chat restrictions are now receiving bans.
ModUlanopo1 votesI think it's a good thing that people have a place to talk about bans and behavioral systems. I lobbied a long time and with great volume for the return of the TBI.
Tract1 votesI wasn't saying it was bad, I greatly approve of it. Its just that ive seen many posts recently about how it seems like so many people are getting banned lately. And how its not so much that more people than before are getting banned, but they have a place to actually talk about it, so it seems like more people are than before.
ModUlanopo1 votesI think it's a mix. As DTN points out, permaban is now only four punishments away. Permabans get people (understandably) fired up and now they have somewhere to post about them.