(1) "Really?" is how adult-children respond to something they don't like but have nothing reasonable to say against.
(2) Out of context or not, swearing at someone and taunting them doesn't fly with me and won't with anyone else here. Even if this guy's the biggest douche on the Internet. You vote kicked once (twice?) so how hard is it to do it again, in the meantime just ignore. Just because someone's whining at you doesn't mean you have to answer them.
(3) I can't speak for everyone else, but who votekicked who is not a big issue. Maybe this guy should've been kicked, maybe he shouldn't. Who am I to judge that, since I wasn't there and don't know what was going on at that time.
(4) I don't think it needs to be published that everyone should be showing some respect and maturity. This is not a fundamentalist Christian server, or a children's server, but it is a server for mature adults. If you can't handle being at least indifferent to people you don't like, we don't want you here. People who can't control themselves are not fun for anyone to play with.
(5) Most bans we do are going to be permanent, especially ex post facto bans. That's a practical matter and not some kind of universal judgement. Temporary bans disappear when the server restarts every morning. Obviously, calling people names does not qualify anyone to be banned for life from anything. If we ban someone, they will either care enough to post/PM someone about it or they won't. If they do, and we can reach some kind of agreement like "stop cussing people out" or "don't flash your teammates on purpose any more," the ban will be removed. Otherwise if someone posts about how we're Nazis trying to restrict their freedom to insult people over the Internet all day generally they'll stay banned.
I think what's above should more or less cover what's been posted here so far, and I would ask anyone to re-read #5 to understand why I've basically ignored most of the posts in this thread.
Jared, if you're able to play without calling people names and abandon jism-related names for yourself, you'll be unbanned.