Just on a principal note, and irrespective of this particular situation: I don't think accepting cheats is a way to keep servers alive. So it is simply not right to even ask "how dare you ban on a dying server?" - the question is so wrong I can't believe someone asked it this way...
Which does not change the fact that we have seen in the past bans where just a warning would do, so it is not wrong that you are asking about the general rules etc. All I'm saying that whether a server is populated or not should really make no difference.
Don't know the reason and couldn't post here anyway.
Pity you don't know the reason. You cannot discuss any particular cases on the forum, but if there is a wave of bans for one particular reason, I don't think anyone would mind a little info about this on the forum. After all the idea behind punishing is also that others learn and don't do the wrong. And you share this info anyway in guild, on ts etc. so why not on the forum.
So from this point of view, without mentioning particular toons etc, may I ask if anyone knows what this ban wave is about?