You can check the drama thread, both hosts (frozen and forest) were defending the ban of “deltard” stubbornly enough (Newest change - Deltard - #17 by Frozentsbgg Newest change - Deltard - #13 by forest2001), so it’s very safe too assume it wasn’t a Grim decision behind their backs. Why did Grim took all the responsibility for this after the backlash? Honestly, I don’t know, some weird damage control? But anyway it’s very misrepresentating to blame Grim’s mistake for this, while it’s very safe to assume that management wouldn’t have backed off without the backlash regardless of whether it was a mistake or not. And, actually, if it was just a Grim’s mistake it doesn’t make it better, it actually makes the issue being discussed a lot worse, because in this case that means even management have no idea what is going on (and this is kinda possible, because we know that the change took staff members by surprise).
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Just a mere tiny mistake they quickly realized only short 16 hours later, of course, nothing to see here 