I can't comment on a lot of the stuff that's been brought up into this thread, but I will say that I have been playing on the SG servers for close to a year now. I have played with both bay and crimson.
Sure bay uses his admin powers, to his own benefit though? I don't think so. He is on late at night a lot of times, when the servers have been emptied out, and he does whatever he can to make the server fun for everyone else, including himself. I don't think I have ever seen him misuse his admin powers intentionally.
It sounds like (from reading this thread), that this could have been all avoided if Crimson went to bay and talked to him before issuing him a strike. To me, this is a whole misunderstanding that puts both Crimson and bay at fault for what seems to be a fairly harmless act.
I think, if anything, we should all take this situation as an example. Why must we be so quick to turn our back on a fellow SG community member? It's pointless pointing fingers and calling names. We are humans and sure we make mistakes, but all it takes sometimes is a one on one conversation. That's what steam chat is for... or vent. What we are seeing here, to me, is something that could have been nipped in the butt from the get go by Crimson. I feel if the issue was brought to bay's attention then they two could have talked things out and none of this would have happened.
I'm still new here and it sounds like there a whole lot of conspiracy theory's spreading about BD's/CA's and what not. It's stuff like this thread that draw away future community members and current community members. It's one thing to have a thread with rational arguments, but this thread has gotten carried away. With what started with a simple question asked by bay, it has turned into a whole different situation now.
I have always been a fan of, if you have a problem with someone or something, talk to that person or talk to someone else in the community about it. Even though I know a lot of the higher up's might be busy, I'm sure they could schedule some time to talk things out with you. Answer your questions.
I'm going to end this rant that was suppose to only be one paragraph, before I got carried away. \
I think the lesson we need to take here is to not jump to such quick conclusions. Take the time to find out the facts and then proceed from there.