I'm not sure if the same applies here, but I believe Voat had the right idea in banning People only if they'd broken the TOS,and maybe in some other edge cases. Bans in my opinion should be used sparingly, and the boned user should always be notified (no shadow banning).
The users base did a pretty good job in the beginning of using their downvotes to stop any spam (or in certain subs, dissenting opinions), but the beauty of that is it was still available to be seen if someone wanted to. No rows upon rows of [DELETED].
Just wanted to put that out there, would love to hear all your thoughts on this matter.
I understand what you're saying about the TOS, and support banning illegal activity here. I think you guys are on the right track, and because of that choose to be a Phukker (is that what we're calling ourselves now?). Hopefully you can find a provider that balances cost with freedom, but I understand why we have the rules we have for now.
One concern I have is once we begin to get more people, we might attract the negative attitudes and actions that voat unfortunately did. So far though I think the general positivity and openness of the current users should be enough to keep this site "on the right track" so to speak.