Alright, it's only a couple of hours until the poll closes, and it seems as if the ban has been voted to be lifted. (And given it's such a stark number between votes, a turnaround seems highly unlikely.)
Now, just so all know this ahead of time, I won't off-the-bat be accepting any application threads until I've conversed with twy over the entire situation (she didn't know this was even happening, which I take full responsibility for), and see if we can establish some new rules and guidelines for the process, since that's what the general request is with the return of the application policy. And given we haven't even conversed over IM's yet, this could take awhile. So until we figure things out, applications will not be considered for acceptance, though threads and subsequential discussions can be made for them. (But please, don't make one if there's a large number already up.)
For now, the application itself will remain the same. If this changes, I'll let everyone know with a section-wide announcement.
Not that it needs to be said, but I'd also like to point out that the ban won't be 'officially' lifted until after the final poll result is in. So I'd appreciate it if no threads are made until that time... which, really, isn't very long at all from now.