The entire mod post gives off this air of being written under stress, and the worst part is it feels like if they'd ever addressed the accusations about this player, the stress wouldn't have snowballed to this point.

Even before I apped into this game, it already felt like common knowledge that they were one of the mods. Everyone told everyone, and we just respected that it's not a topic to bring into the server. I don't know them or have a grudge against them, so to me, personally, the player isn't the problem.

But I think regardless of our own experiences, all of us can agree that the choice to pretend nobody's asked about them and the belief that the topic will go away if the mods all ignore it hard enough is.