A number of new threads appeared overnight on the official forums for Heroes of the Storm complaining of temporary bans Blizzard has handed out for toxic behavior in the MOBA. There are complaints about the punishments being unfair or inappropriate, but there are also numerous posts from other users pleased that such discipline is being meted out. On a more positive front, a bonus experience points weekend gets underway this afternoon in the game. This post by a community manager explains this is to compensate for their previous XP boost ending too early:

As many of you are aware, our recent 100% XP Bonus event ended a day earlier than we had originally communicated. We’ve seen quite a bit of disappointment over this, as well as a progression issue that affected players in Europe, and we’d like to apologize for any frustrations these things have caused. In order to return some of this bonus time to you, we’re planning to offer an additional 100% XP Bonus event that will span an entire weekend.

We will enable this 100% XP Bonus for the Americas region of Battle.net, starting at 1:00 p.m. PDT on Thursday, July 2, and ending at 1:00 p.m. PDT on Monday, July 6.

The event will also begin and end for each of our other Battle.net regions around the world at 1:00 p.m. local time on these same days. We hope that you’ll be able to take advantage of this additional XP Boost to pick up some of the progression that many of you had hoping to earn on June 24.