I'd like to bring up a point made by Erick in another thread about the situation:
But yeah, the ban amounts were excessive AND rather bogus because participation in any incident whether it be 6 "( ´‿ゝ`)we are men( ´‿ゝ`)" or 1
"Hello, my name is Juan Pastoroni, CEO of Copy Pasta Industries. I'd like to let you know that we've just gained copyrights on a lot of copy pastas seen in this chat. If you are using them right now, please refrain from doing so, or risk being fined under copyright infringement. Thank you, and don't be funny and copy and paste this. This is business, kid. Again, no cappuccino pasterino or you're fucking deaderino kidderino" means that the user should be punished for taking advantage of the situation.
I believe that everyone who took advantage of the situation should be banned. This is not about quantity of copy/pasting. It's about who took advantage of the situation.