Faded's Predictions Punishment

[SwankyPants31]

This is mindboggling to me. Cheating is always malicious. Everyone loses when they play with or against a cheat. It cheapens the game for all those involved. Faded's teammates were among those advocating for a bigger punishment, as was someone who (I think?) gets on really well with him. As you know, in punishments where there are any shades of grey, people usually jump to the defence of their friends/teammates. Given how heavy-handed one famous recent punishment was, this looks incredibly tame and as others have pointed out, the precedent in cheating cases has been a larger punishment. Plus as you mention later, he did cheat another user out of their money.

Completely agree with this. It's not like Faded did something wrong without knowing what he was doing was wrong, he intentionally abused his power to gain an advantage. That's malicious no matter how you look at it.

Honestly, I think Faded retiring his player kinda bailed you out here, as the only further punishment left is a site suspension to delay him coming back and recreating (if he even wants to) or issuing him a further fine/job restrictions to put him at more of a disadvantage if he does come back. Him apologising/criticising himself (rightly) garnered some sympathy and stopped the reaction becoming more vitriolic.

Want to briefly address this as well, especially his "apology". I'd like to point out that even in that apology he never came clean regarding taking advantage of the casino. That was something that was discovered independently after the fact. To double down on the point about how cheating is malicious from earlier, he had every opportunity to at least self report the casino money after seeing that the punishment was just for TPE, and he intentionally chose not to. To me, that extinguishes any goodwill he might have had left.