Board Thread:Community Discussions/@comment-26047195-20150709043335

So throughout the last few months, I've noticed that some users just push the limits in chat as much as possible. Not naming any names here, but some users just have a reputation of being disruptive and annoying; and while not everything they do is kick/ban worthy, they can be an extreme irritance to the community in their general behavior that is persistent. Wouldn't it be better for the community to express their feelings and have the disruptive user removed via their decision, rather than having to deal with their behavior until the mods can ban them enough times to justify a long-term ban? While things have been relatively peaceful in chat recently and this proposition isn't triggered by any recent events or disruptive users particularly, this is an issue for which these petitions would have definitely been useful in the past, and may become useful in the future should we encounter issues. To summarize, the purpose of these petitions would be for the long-term removal from chat (long-term being at least a month) of specific users that do nothing for the community but cause havoc and disruption; the removal being upon the request of any user and the majority vote winning.

Some thoughts to discuss on this would be
 * How this would be presentable in a way where the community still has their say, but it's not unnecessarily offensive towards the user whom the petition is against
 * Admin participation, which could include required approval of the petition before publishing as to avoid joke petitions and stupid crap, the admins' ability to override the vote or not, etc.

This idea was brought up in chat earlier tonight and several users implied their support of it so thought I'd make a discussion out of it for all to see and share their opinion. I'll probably make a CV out of it soon if most of you agree. :P 