I can relate to this. I don't know how many of you noticed or even cared, but from November 13 to November 21 I was absent from the forums. This was a result of 800 warning points I had recieved thus a week banishment. Here's where I get confused.
I had posted a link to Sweet Apple Massacre in the MLPForums Skype chat, and thusly got kicked from it in minutes, which I accepted. I posted a status about it on the forums though and got talking to a mod about it, and he explained to me what I had done and why I got kicked. I thanked him and went on my way. During this time I had noticed a couple mods looking at my profile and this made me nervous because of the situation, but I was not banned. It was Zoop himself who removed me from the Skype group after I posted that link, and I was not banned from the forums.
***4 days later***
I try to log into the forums but couldn't as I had been banned for a week about a link I posted 4 days earlier, a link that some mods had already known I committed. I don't understand why even though some mods had let it go at the time of the incedent, I was still banned by some other mod 4 days later, not to mention I was by no means the only one posting NSFW material in the Skype chat...
Long story short, I completely agree with you Motion. Kudos for speaking out about it. /)