Ok, this is going to sound stupid, especially coming from me. I know I've proved to all that I'm not the best member of meep, but I'm tring to contribute even though I'm banned, so this:
I was thinking of how ban appeals take a long time to process sometimes, and I realised how many times members had "liked" ban appeals... what if ban appeals had a vote option? Obviously the staff would be the only ones who could accept/deny bans, but the forum members could vote to maybe influence the descision. Example: If on my appeal you see 5 deny votes and no accept votes, you barely need to read the request to know it's gonna be a denied. However, in a legitimate post, maybe with 7 accept votes and 2 deny votes, the staff would of course choose accept or deny based on the players actions, but if a staff member was wavering or the ban was based on toxicity/racism/luring or other player-on-player crimes, the staff would maybe see that the community was ready to forgive. I'm not saying this as a means to get unbanned, I just think it would be interesting. Lemme know what you guys think.