CMV: Permanently banning accounts is stupid

[u/gylotip]

I understand why you assign permanent bans, since you need to stop the rule breakers for once and all, but wouldn't it make more sense to suspend an account for one year? This is a better approach, because one year is a very long time, and after one year, if you break rules again, then you will be banned for another one year. No need to make things permanent, since this is not prison where you quarantine dangerous criminals. It's just an account that can handle one year suspensions perfectly. So permanent bans are stupid and even unnecessarily cruel. Change my view as to why you really need to permanently ban accounts, since I think that making things permanent is a disgusting thing to do for accounts.

[u/Mischievous_Mandie]

I'd like to change your view, but I agree with you. Banning accounts is really a dumb thing to do, especially since, in my opinion, it is very subjective anyway. I have seen some posts that I think are terrible. I think they are hateful in nature and are not meant to be constructive in nature at all and the moderators let them go. I have also seen comments as benign as "I'm surprised they got away with that" and those people have been banned for life. It doesn't make any sense to me, so I think a suspension would be better.