this is honestly so important to me because the two times i have gotten well known on servers i have been banned for reasons beyond my control. losing your time, your friendships, and being left with only your experiences and memories suck all mods need to see this as i dont think anybody deserves to get their friends taken from them (unreasonably at least)
if your friend got perm. banned for nick abuse, then have your friend appeal and if i where you, i'd go ahead and report the mod for abuse. of course, it depends what happened.....
Hello! I really feel you in this case. If the mod felt like this name was inappropiate then maybe /msg this person and tell him it's not ok. Or as you say, warn, kick them for nickabuse. I also agree to the fact that skyblock isn't just a game, I've made a lot of friends here so I really hate it when people get banned without getting warned first.