There should be absolutely zero bans for this much less all the people who were permabanned for it. This was a spur of the moment unannounced and unasked for event that had a blatantly obvious bug. The bug should have been found immediately. It was that obvious. At most the punishment for the exploit should have been to have your transmits removed, but permanently banning people or even a 7 day ban for this is overly harsh and shouldn't even be up for consideration.