As someone holding up Agoracom's Six Rules of Use, I'd like to point out that there is no such thing as voting over someone to be banned or not.

Regarding democracy, tolerance is a very high value. The word comes from the Latin "tolerare" which means "to bear", "to suffer", "to undergoing something". These verbs don't promise you any warm feelings if you have to tolerate someone or someone's opinion. The opposite is the case: In a democracy you are expected to bear, to suffer to undergo something.

The good news is that tolerance is also expected from your counterpart. He has to bear with you, has to suffer, has to undergo your opinion. Still tolerance is not acceptance. If you tolerate someone's position you are in no way requested to accept his position as your's.

I am glad our western societies are based on this foundation, permitting a multitude of different opinions living (more or less) peacefully together and even adding to each other and to the prosperity of us all. A society where a majority could oust minorities would be, well, untolerable. Unfortunately our world has more than enough examples of them.