Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4845243-20150402222054/@comment-25995065-20150403002540

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Well, if someone gets banned on chat for being disruptive, then that impugns their ability to not only be non-disruptive on forums and message walls, but their ability to prevent others from being disruptive. If they can't recognize disruptive behavior well enough to avoid a ban, then they probably can't recognize it well enough to moderate discussions on threads.

Although, I would say this doesn't apply to bans that are later revoked as unfair. The key part there is "probably can't recognize it". That doesn't mean they always can't. So if that is a concern, that's a good reason to oppose a request, but if the user doesn't have an issue recognizing it in the forums, their bans shouldn't prevent them from putting a request in. If their judgement is wrong and people disagree that they're able to moderate the forums based on their chat activity, that's where the community can oppose their request.