Maybe maximum 4-6months and if they commit same offends whether with past or future post, they get permanent ban.
How about three days and also give them 100 howeycoins for being such great guys?
Deranking to newbies after remove permanent bans might make them mad, especially whom are here to work for campaigns. They mostly won't be able to come back (repromotions) to higher ranks. Because some (or most) of them even are not earned too much merits (or a single of merit) after 14 months since the birthday of merit system.
Please let us know why should we care about people who haven't earned are unable to earn merits and are here only for "work" going "mad"?
Therefore, such deranks/ demotions might results in another chaotic situation (due to massive complaints and appeals) in the forum, that might not what we expect for. Additionally, I don't think mods expect that (at least in near future) because they actually have huge workloads recent days due to perma-ban appeals and plagiarsim reports.
Yeah, let's also stop issuing parking tickets cause we have to hire people to hand them down.
How many ban appeals are there? 25? 50? 617 gazillion?
We've had lots of bans in the past, not as big as this one but after a brief period of posts flooding the meta there was a period of peace with one or two appeals a week. Besides, it's not like all the 2000 accounts that got banned will make a topic, some were already junk, red tagged, jr members with 0 merits.
I've browsed through the modlog and I saw lots that were last active since 2018 and even 2017.