Excuse me.
I understand punishing users for trying to abuse the system- You're a site admin and that's your job. You have every right to be pissed off about people abusing your system.
However, deleting people's accounts for something they did (not only before this was posted or at least, before they could notice this) that is so small as trying to group together to get an award is in fact an injustice. Now a ban, I could understand. But deleting someone's account that contains their hard work throughout the course of a year is just bullshit. I can't make anyone mass review my submissions, I can ask that they review 10 and vote 5. I wasn't aware that telling friends to vote on my submission was against the rules here.
Now, again, It's completely fair to ban someone, at worst even a permanent ban. However deleting someone's hard work is just uncalled for. I'm also aware that this is a privately owned site, however you encourage people to sign up and submit animations, that's the point of the site.
It's really rather inconvinient, as our one year anniversary is in three days. I may not be able to change anything but I can tell you I think your punishment is far too severe for the crime.
As for Bigbadron, submitting animations and stealing pixelated awards on a website is oh so very much like murder isn't it?