Community Appeal System - Rough Draft

An idea I've made mention of in some of my recent posts.

This is a (rough draft of) a system where a banned player can, after a pre-determined time period, appeal to their fellow players for a last chance. The logic here being that, since bans are assigned to players that the system has decided the community shouldn't have to deal with, the right for a player to have another chance if they've shown reform should be up to that same community.

Now I know someone's going to tell me "but it's a permanent ban". In real terms, though, 'permanent' is only as long as Riot wants it to be, since they're in control of the account.

Anyway, here are the basic points of the system:

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• A banned player can file for a Community Appeal 2 months after the date of their ban (adjust time frame as needed). This provides the player with a very real incentive to reform, since their stuff actually hinges on their success instead of being just flat-out gone forever.

• Said player then writes up an appeal, discussing how they believe they've reformed, and can use things they've done since their ban as evidence of such. Things like alt accounts leveled up without bad behavior, helping the game community in other ways, etc...

• The Arbiters, as well as possibly players who have a relatively clear punishment record and are a certain summoner level, can then vote on these appeals. These players would likely also need to have played a certain number of PVP games to decrease the threat of alt accounts being used. (Level 30 with possibly ~300 PVP games having been played might be a good starting point.)

• If the appeal is successful, the account is placed back at punishment tier 3, meaning one more strike and they're out (again). It's up to them to reform from there.

• Community Appeal can only be done once per account, even if the appeal fails, so if they fail their appeal or screw up on their account again, they're done for-real-permanently.

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This system isn't just "unban people". The banned needs to make their case, and be judged by their fellow players. Let their ultimate fate be decided by the people who pay to keep this game afloat rather than an automated system.

(It was pointed out to me that famous players who were banned may present an issue with this system, like Dunkey for example, so I am very aware of this.)

Thoughts? Opinions? Ridicule? I'll take anything as long as it makes a decent discussion point.

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I'm mainly interested in seeing if players who were significantly punished can reform when given such an incentive. I know it didn't work when Riot tried it years ago, but accounts weren't worth nearly as much back then. Plus their testing period was rather short, all things considered. There's so much more at stake now.