People only get permanent banned for hacking, exploiting or getting way to many bans.
Then it depends how serious the ban is. If someone gets around 6-8 bans, it is obvious that they do not know how to follow rules and they face a permanent ban.
People then complain that they really love the server and realize that they cannot actually just come back because the ban is not going to expire. People seem to only realize the seriousness of getting banned when its a permanent ban. That is why our permanent ban list is quite big.
I don't know. Maybe Rofl will do something for the 24th (25th) December and give people who "striked" out an extra chance to prove themself? I don't know. We gotta discuss that.