[nGenLight]

Well personally, cheating in a major competitive game such as StarCraft II with such a large community deserves a severe punishment on the fringe of banishment, regardless of screen cheating or maphacking. In my personal opinion, any caught cheaters should deserve at least 6 months - This is simply an offense too great to be lenient towards. I missed the entire meany drama until now, but IMO they should both get a very long ban. Though I do have to say that going through the net looking for maphack takes a more severe desire to cheat than to stream cheat - and either way we cannot prove if Meany stream cheated or simply maphacked, so IMO the same punishment is needed.

The defense that he was a former respected member is weak - The fact that he got to respectability through possible cheating and cheating behind a respectable name is pretty disgusting.

The hardest thing is that outside of subjective opinion, we do not possess any technology that could prove anyone of actually cheating. In Dota, a good player's usual defense towards cheating accusations was superior insight. So whether we need to invest in more technology or get all seriousA and/or adopt a panel of respected juries, it will take some serious progress before we can actively weed out the cheaters.

It looks like the mods have made up their decision on this matter - to allow the subject a very quick chance to redemption. Although I echo numerous voices in the community by taking a harder stance (moreso because the subjects lied multiple times about it), the decision is very understandable.