yeah, I'm not about to vote or anything, I'm just thinking of times I've seen the question of "should x char be banned?" come up in other games. HDR is a pretty good example - the rebalanced Akuma was initially allowed in tournaments, but the players made a very good case for why he's overpowered (including Damdai maining the character and winning tournaments with him specifically to prove his point) and ultimately a consensus was reached that the character should be banned. On the other hand, there's the case of Algol in SC4 where he was banned without any major tournaments being won with him, which split the community in half.. not to mention it was later discovered that he's not top tier.
Oh yeah.. plus when SC4 was in Evo the community failed to make a convincing argument for banning Algol so he was allowed and didn't even end up making top 8.
All that being said, I like that you guys are deciding it based on a vote with ppl that actually show up to tournaments :D