User blog comment:AmazingPythor/Important: Demotion of Veralann/@comment-26425232-20170309144727/@comment-26067066-20170309225013

@Roddy If you look at the situation logically I doubt conferring with Hype over the matter first would have changed anything regardless of what he said, as we obviously deemed him untrustworthy based on the screenshots anyways. Would it have been somewhat more fair? Should we probably have done it? I suppose, yes, that's reasonable. But again, allowing him to plead his case beforehand likely would result in the same situation.

@Derp I believe you're missing the point. We are not demoting him as punishment for indefinitely plotting to leak sensitive information, but more so as a precaution to prevent him from doing so. What worries us is the fact that when leaking information was brought up, instead of shutting it down immediately, he entertained the idea at all, stating that he'll "see depending on how the website is set up","so we viewed him as a potential threat to sensitive information. It has nothing to do with us being "thought police"; the demotion is really nothing more than prevention of leaking information that users have requested remain private.