These are not theories, these are facts. We have a thread open for over a year already for a member that copy/pasted something in a stupid airdrop thread 3 years ago. We did everything trying to get his permaban removed, nobody even answered. There are cases of people getting unbanned instantly so I'd say there are no rules at all. Not only that there are no rules, there's not even basic courtesy to reply to a thread in which at least 5 Legendary members amongst others ask for some kind of explanation.

Regarding Lauda - the witch hunt will happen for sure. After all, Lauda was the hammer of the forum for a long time and her own rules/viewpoints will bite her in the ass. Lauda might be a bad example to do this because she stepped on too many toes and if she was not punished somehow it would cause mayhem, but this might finally be a turning point in which we establish some groundrules for cases like these.

I'm not the one to say what punishment is just, nobody will care and I personally do not care as well. The thing is - this forum is too big to be run like a kindergarten, without any obligations from staff to explain their thoughts and/or decisions.

I'm really looking forward to Regulus at least getting an answer to his plea after almost a year and a half and I wish Lauda all the best in fighting this. Not because I like her, I don't really like her stance and lack of empathy of any sorts, but because for me things like these (copypasting made 5 years ago) really shouldn't be considered as a major crime. Worse crime is ignoring a permaban appeal for 1.5 years while removing permabans of others, all the mods are guilty of it and still - nothing happens with that.