Kestrel wrote: Sat Jun 13, 2026 8:41 pm
In light of the community feedback, we have extended the ban permanently.
This was the outcome I was hoping to see. Putting the behavior of the player aside, leaning towards a 7 day was too light of a punishment and would have absolutely created a continuous situation in which people would gamble on "getting away with it", whatever "it" may have been in future scenarios. Not only am I proud of you and your team for acting with conviction in this case, but also listening to the community who clearly had an issue with it.
Despite how much damage meatgrinder caused, for himself, the server, and player relations, in my opinion there is still the matter of the GM who abused their power in the first place. That GM's actions are more insidious in nature and posed a much greater threat to the server, the project, the community, and your team.
If it hasn't been done yet, I strongly urge you, as a community member, to prevent current and future access to the server itself, if at all possible. Account ban, IP ban, etc, etc. This person deserves the harshest punishment possible.