He refuses to clearly define the line with examples. We need to see what has gone down before. Too many people play it safer than they need to for fear of the ambiguity.

(Similarly most YouTube creators who remain have all gone soft now. It's a tedious distraction now. I'm eager to shift my paradigm and finally drop YouTube.)

I still have 2 (or more) strikes and an axe over my head from 2 years ago. M7 hasn't said otherwise. I've argued the strikes need expiry dates, though it seems like enemies are playing long games of 8 months or more. More importantly, I'm still not sure what it was specifically that upset him enough to declare the strikes and/or which conflicts (certainly more than 2) he even referred to.

but they're only suggestions, and IMO we shouldn't attempt to force anything.

Why not? It's his site but it's our community. There has to be give and take on all sides.

Perhaps, there could be a banning process.

YES!

This is what I've been calling for, most recently here. I want SaidIt to be better, and much of that may depends on M7 opening up. If I wanted to subvert SaidIt I'd have already started my own SaidIt instance with more democratic transparency and tried to lure people over. M7 and I are +97% in alignment with our primary objectives.

Something like this I proposed a while back but forgot until now is a deescalation alternative. When things get hot, often logic goes out the window - on both sides. Only one has the power. Picture admin banning someone for 2 days, long enough for everyone to cool down, take stock, build cases, etc. Next level would be 2 weeks. Next level would be 2 months. Then final.

Why so many steps? Because people put a lot of effort in here. I was banned from Quora for no good reason, with no warning, and all my work was stolen from me - as well as everyone's I interacted with. We had some great content - all gone. SaidIt is not the same, but it's devastating to lose it all, and obviously some people react regrettably (DioJr., Snow, etc) and delete their content out of spite.

We wouldn't want a huge banner of obvious banned shills and advertisers, etc., And they don't deserve the effort.

Obviously you don't put the banned list on the front page. It doesn't matter how long the list is. If you must defend/justify the length of the list then just write a fucking paragraph or essay explaining the perpetual bot/culture/crypto/info/propaganda/shill/spam war (preferably with examples). Make these lists self-generating and automatic so that M7 and other admins are not further burdened. There's ZERO excuse why not to have transparent open records. If anything, the volume of attacks would only prove our cause is righteous and we're unjustly attacked by the organized crime of corrupt-establishment-defending minions.