Everyone here is well aware that Jamie is the top contributor to the community at present, what he’s done in terms of advancing the private servers available to us with not only his coding but his willingness to release his work to the masses can not be underestimated and if he were to step back it would be a huge blow to the community for sure.
What Hells did was wrong sure, however I get why he did it, not saying that I agree with it but I do understand his frustration, he paid a huge fee on zircon to basically dominate the server, he then felt that his money had been blown due to changes made after those donations were made. How many people have spent ridiculous hours grinding servers for nerfs/server closures etc. to render their time wasted and felt that kind of frustration, I would imagine that would be a lot more amplified after donating thousands to said server.
This is a dispute that should have been between the 2 parties involved, it should not be a community debate. I applaud Tai and the staff for remaining as neutral as possible in the situation, the easy answer would be to ban Hells, frankly it would be a much smaller loss to the community than Jamie (that’s not intended as an insult just simple fact, Jamie is a beast of a coder and shares his work) but if they were to go down such route, at what point would people get banned simply because a server owner doesn’t like a certain community member?
I hope Jamie is able to clear his head and return, he would be a huge loss to this community but at the same time I feel like everyone knows Hells, they know to tread careful when it comes to any dealings with the guy and should therefore be able to make their own judgement with his server.