Definitely PTB. User history of OP here has no recent examples of trolling of any kind, nor any examples of even complaining about ai. Didn’t go back far because for a ban on a troll basis to be valid, it would need to be evident in a month or less of activity. If someone isn’t trolling in that period of time at all, they aren’t a troll. They may or may not occasionally pull a troll (I’m guilty of that lol), but that isn’t the same as the level of action needed to be a troll.

Thus, no ban would be justified at all in thia case. The two things cited as reason simply aren’t there.

Tbh, it’s one of the most egregious examples of PTB I’ve seen in a while. While I’m actually very much in favor of a limited degree of admin scrutiny of mods, this is one of those cases where it would be justified for db0 to apply some degree or correction.

Edit: scrolled back even further just because I’m bored. Two months since the most teeny mention of ai in OP’s comments, and it was in no way rabid or unreasonable. A simple observation about the changes ai has caused in search results. The next most recent was a casual mention of the ai bubble, and didn’t even constitute a complaint. OP has complained on their account less about ai in three months than I have in a week in meatspace. Makes the PTB even more glaring because it means the mod in question had to go digging to find something public to object to.