They are aware of the ban, since Ramzi did it himself and Ryan said it wouldn't be overturned.
I believe the use of this topic is to inform the community of what happened and to get enough support behind him to make an effective change.
I'll take the time to say again, I completely agree with Batty here. We [The staff] added the arguments section to the discord so that we could send players there to avoid spamming in the general discord or the clan chat. We marketed it as an area that allowed players to argue, it was a NSFW section and if you didn't want to go in to it you didn't have to.
The Staff [Moderators etc] should be the ones to blame for the creation and advertisement of this section. It is really upsetting to me that multiple players were the ones who received a punishment for something we told them was okay to do.
I myself being one of the moderators who told players to argue in that section would gladly take the punishment instead of the players, because that is the right thing to do, our failures and mistakes are ours alone and any player unfortunate enough to be caught up in a mess because of them should never be punished.
I'd encourage all of the fellow staff to review this topic and all of the supporting posts and let the community know your stance as I have.