I talked with the guy actually. That story has been a little overstated in Redditland.
So you do not know much about squadrons.
There are squadrons exists that you must join their discord and chinese “QQ” to join in,and they title themself “elite players”.And some of them have some darker ideas.
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I don’t think that’s the standard though.
So, lots of squadrons allow it. I refer you to WTCS again. On YouTube, great channel, check it out. Efforts by that guy had non-trivial impact in Gaijin going from 100 bans a month a year ago to 10000 now.
Your new definition of “random” would sorta make sense if players are assigned to squadrons randomly. They’re not. Squadrons have agency in who they accept and their criteria for someone to stay. They can post their rules of conduct in a public place. They can be open to complaints about their players from other squadrons instead of brushing them off, as many do. And they can set personal examples too.
Having a player permabanned, or more than one, should lead a squadron membership to ask themselves, if we care about this game, could we have done a little more here to help it succeed instead of skimming indirect profits from cheating? And if it doesn’t lead to that, we’ll, that’s a choice too. Above all the individual members of that squadron deserve a chance to vote with their feet and not be part of a squadron that enables cheaters. Publishing clan tags on these lists would enable those players who care about cheating to make their own choices too.
Not just squadron reward.
They were using bots to earn real cash.
They figured out a way to sell GJN(Id on’t know how).
They bots in event seasons,get tons of SL, and buy keys and box, and get more items and sell them all.
They have made thousands dollars this way.
All of that comes down to not acting on things that have happened before or to be given information, but that information is not guaranteed to be given to squadron leaders, which means when players in their squadron get banned it’s a surprise and not something they should be shamed for.
What you call “shaming” is just what other people call “consumer information” or “bad reviews.” You want people to get less information than they could have from a company about their squadron’s attitude toward rules-violators, that could affect their play choices, because of possible broken “fee-fees.” Because we can never ever make people feel bad in their self-esteem zone… in a way we’re all winners… just keep handing out those participation trophies to everyone in one long race to a judgment-free mediocrity.
Or, do it my way: if you don’t want to be judged on how you run a squadron, don’t run a squadron. That was a choice too.
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Bad review for something out of their control is just pointless, like complaining about a company because your package didn’t get delivered even though that’s the responsibility of a different company and once it’s out the door it’s out of their control.
Putting a squadron on blast because someone in that squadron was cheating completely on their own and in no way facilitated or supported by the squadron is just stupid, every company can have bad employees which is not a reflection of the company, and in a videogame the stakes are infinitely lower and you don’t screen a player.
Knowing is half the battle