I've heard this line of logic before:
exaA: Anti-cheat cases may take many months to acquire the necessary evidence to justify a ban where there is 100% confidence in the conclusions. An individual making their case and evidence publically can hurt AC with trying to find evidence that is largely missed by reporters. The criteria for evidence RGL AC has is extremely strict and requires high-quality evidence even to build a concrete case which will not always be the case for most public evidence. Having potential evidence be public and spreading it around will easily land it in the hands of a supposed cheater. Not only does this allow for the cheater to fix their mistakes to make it harder to be caught, but they will also know to lay low, allowing suspicions around them to calm down. This has happened to a large extent in several recent cases, drastically slowing down the investigation. If the suspect does get banned, they often attempt to use the public “evidence” to reject their ban, even though Anti-Cheat gathers much more undeniable evidence of cheating than the evidence that is publicly shared or included in a report.
Can we talk about how dumb it is for a second? The only way for the above to ever happen is if
1) there is a public witch hunt for a certain player
2) that player IS, in fact, cheating
You're saying that people posting public evidence that looks incredibly suspicious will lead to these players covering their tracks, and that this actually HAS made the process take longer. Meaning the witch hunt was correct AND that it was evidence of that level of suspicion that led to the ban in the end (if it was more blatant stuff, it doesn't make sense for the investigation to have slowed down by less blatant stuff being public). So then, the public should get more credit?
Putting aside the argument that having to be 100% certain is a little silly, how can you get from 99% to 100% if no new evidence is coming out? The AC people just rewatch the old stuff and change their mind? This is starting to sound a lot less rigorous and quantifiable.
Also, doesn't the point about 'allowing the suspicions to calm down' contradict the idea that public outrage has no effect on the speed of the process?
Honestly, it sounds like RGL is just running through the beats of what they're 'supposed' to say to defend their AC process without thinking through the implications. Please enlighten me if I am wrong about any of my assumptions here.