And as the other part of our conversation said, his value doesn't excuse what he did. The moderators have a bad reputation as it is of ignoring things the staff does wrong and making excuses for them to get away with it, as well as being overly harsh. The current staff has made it quite clear they're concerned about the the staff's reputation. That was a given in how hesitant everyone was to say this was abuse of power when it easily was by any definition. Making these excuses is only going to make staff reputation worse and I think we all can agree that's not desirable. Something should be done. The infraction should be deleted and at the least he should be restricted from doing any moderating at all. Stick to tech. I recommended him for admin in the first place because he was so good at it. There was also something I heard about of splitting the moderator and admin powers. Tech admins would be only admins, forum managing mods would have both the moderator and admin ranks. It'd make the staff look better and it could address this problem.Despite anything, as I said to Matt earlier in Skype, I will vouch for Kitsu as much as possible. Kitsu is extremely intelligent and knows things that I do not. He is the reason the forum was updated, good layouts are coming in, the exploit was fixed, etc. We compliment each other extremely well. With 7 years of programming experience almost entirely focused on PHP, I am often able to fix errors that were overlooked by him, but he is able to see things I would never notice. Kitsu is, in my opinion, an almost irreplaceable member of the staff team, moreso than ANY of the forum staff, including myself. I absolutely believe Kitsu should keep his position with all of the same permissions he currently has, and as I've had the most direct experience working with him side by side, I can attest that he is the single most diligent and hard working person on this site when it pertains to bettering the site. A single poor judgment call should have nothing to do with his position as possibly to this date the site's best Administrator.