the terrible ban wave won't last for too long and it will cool down soon.
I have reasons to believe the opposite, I expect the bot to stay up and running, busting plagiarizers indefinitely. The expenses needed for it to be online 24/7 seems to be secured. So fellas, fasten your seatbelts, there will be a shit ton of those ban appeal threads and maybe having a separate sub-board isn't the worst idea given how much they clog Meta.