[Noxid]

Bans certainly do not come lightly and I think stressing that fact is important.  What we, and the GMs, do not need is a committee of friend pals ready to give an attempt at lawyering every time a ban comes out and harass the person who gave the report in the first place.  Such an environment discourages reporting issues at all and instead encourages, plain and simple, not dealing at all with people you know will cause problems.  Transparency can certainly be a case-by-case basis.

No one is asking for this. No one is doing this. Reasonable transparency is required so people can have faith that decisions and rulings that have been made are done so fairly.

A big thing that would assist in this is actually giving more tools. Specifically I think there should be some form of server side logging. Currently the GMs have to rely on logs that players may have gathered. This has many issues. You may not have managed to get the log of a situation you wish the report, you may only have part of it, others may submit an edited log, I could go on but I think you get the point. With server side logging GMs would simply have to look up the relevant timestamp to see what actually happened. This also means that no one can deny they have done something. The logs will contain what they did or didn't do, plain as day.

I'm sure you understand this already but just because you've personally had nothing but good interactions doesn't mean everyone has. Personally I've had a report I made on another player's rule breaking ignored for over a year at this point. But I have also had good interactions too. A good system will help alleviate these issues by giving everyone procedures to follow, rather than having to handle everything in DMs and off memory alone.