He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
- Plato
For your own sake Razmirz, do not go through with this. See reason and perhaps redeem some of your respect.
The community will always resist this kind of injustice, for you are not fixing a problem, but creating a bigger one.
No matter how much you believe in people, if that is even in the background of this, a system like this will be abused, possibly even accidentally. People always need rules and righteous people to withhold them, for we are not even near perfect. This does not mean that we want a dictatorship into which your rule is quickly forming into, we want a democracy. You were wrong to go past the other staff.
A program cannot moderate the game, it's a faulty solution.
Even if you call it a short trial, you need to understand how quickly so many things can go wrong. In merely a day, you could destroy the entire game and its community. Before you have even implemented this change, people are already leaving in protest and in fear of suffering at the hands of this injustice.
And when you stand at the burning ruins of this game, hoping to fix this, you will have no way of knowing which of the bans were 'justified' and which were not. Let the moderators do their work, and if you have a problem with the way they are doing it, start there. Don't paste another problem on the issue like it were a piece of tape on a cracked pipe. It will not hold. It will not work.
Regarding the patch, it is something that many good folks in the community have worked very hard on. You have no right to block its implementation into the game by yourself. If you are uncertain of what the people want, let them vote. Don't be a dictator.
To the community:
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Fight for what is right, don't let it be too late.
Feral Heart is a unique game, don't let these injustices kill it.
