As we all may be aware of, there are certains accounts in the forum that are.... a huge pain in the ass (to say the least). To bring an example, the recent "situation" with game-protect (flag thread
here, and negative trust retaliation
here).
To simplify this; a well know spammer/"almost scammer" has received a flag, and made some negative trust retaliation; which is quite useless, but has also been spamming threads created by people supporting the flag. Mods have deleted most/all of the spam replies, but that doesn't feel like enough (for many).
Now, this is a recent example, in which I got a bit caught, but there are many other cases out there (personally, I'd add The-One-Above-All to the list; who is on many peoples' ignore list as an example, because of his constant useless replies), and I'm sure a longer list could be created, but I don't think it's neccessary for this.
After giving it some thought; I believe I've reached something that could be considered a solution: the same way some global moderators/admins can perma-ban users for X reasons; there could be a system to vote on some users that despite not being actually breaking rule forums enough to be perma-banned (example of GP getting posts deleted and nothing else), they are well known to be some kind of "cancer" (maybe the word is too hard, but it's late night and I cannot come up with something better) and in case some kind of agreement is reached; said user could get perma-banned. I'll further explain:
Say I've been posting shit for the last year and scamming people and doing some nasty stuff, enough to have my account veeery very red painted; but as I would technically not have broken any forum rule, I'd still be able to do the nasty stuff here.
But, the nasty stuff I've been doing is so nasty; that at least 30 DT1 people would support my perma-ban (some more thought has to be given to this, since DT2 and non-DT users should also have a saying). Then; like with the flag system, someone could create a thread saying: "Let's perma-ban Csmiami/ Csmiami should be expelled from the forum" or something similar.
In the thread, similar to flag system, all the adecuate information on why that should happen should be provided. Since it's some serious thing, the user in question would receive an email/PM notification, in order to be able to defend his stay on the forum. And on the trust/somewhere over the user profile page; a little window to provide your vote.
I have not said 30 DT1 members randomly before; I consider it something difficult that 30 people agree on something; judging by how responsible some/most of those members are. But, since it's just a rough idea, that could be modified.
Believing I've writen everything that came to my mind; I'll edit if I can think of something more