Honestly, I feels like a spite ban unless we can see concrete proof that hate was A) Posted / Promoted, B) Moderators had enough time to deal with it and ignored it. Other wise the bans were unjust.

Spoken like they couldn't flat-out say "yes, we banned you out of spite because you defied us. We'll shout it from a mountaintop. Hell, we jerked off while we banned you out of spite. And we run the site so you can't do shit about it. And if you complain? We'll cry you're oppressing us, and we'll win. Be happy we don't say you were spreading illegal content and give your IPs to the cops for defying us."