This is a ridiculous statement. I've issued countless bans to people that have pinged SMT members and Zeeptin alike. There's a difference between pinging someone for a specific reason, or doing it to screw around and "be funny". Secondly, it's literally a rule in the discord not to tag SMT members. A blatant rule violation results in a punishment, same as literally every other rule violation.
Had he just pinged Igneous, sure, a week long ban may have been in order. But Igenous and Zeeptin shows exceedingly poor judgement.
This is another post that shows the lack of understanding of how SMT have to have their stuff set up for different situations. We can't blanketly set ourselves to not receive pings at all for the times that the pings may be necessary. For example, I'm routinely pinged in a variety of channels across the discords to answer different questions in the MOTD. If I set myself to suppress all pings, all of these people won't have their questions answered. It's similar across the entire SMT team. Trust me, we're well aware of how to set our ping permissions, but it's because we do engage with the community that we don't set them suppress all pings.
Plus, Zeeptin was the one who issued the ban, not one of our other moderators.