Vic, I'm still unclear of the purpose of this thread. Sure, you're announcing that there will be an "internal investigation that includes review from a third party". But the rest of the words in your first post don't seem to actually mean anything.
the new face of RD is going to be vastly different than any before. Our culture will change, members will leave and new members will join, and when it's all said and done we hope that we can play this game we all love right alongside the rest of you fair and honest players
But RD leadership isn't providing any indication that this is going to happen. All I can see is the same spin that has characterised AT for ~15 years.
If RD leadership wants the community to actually believe that there has been a change in RD, then you gotta actually give the community something other than a paragraph of pretty words.
I've provided a suggestion, and there have been others in this thread. Here's mine:
I challenge you to post screenies of the internal discussion that led up to the posting of this thread, and any other discussions about RD's public response to this cheating incident. Unedited. Quickly.
In fact, how you demonstrate that RD has changed isn't up to me, or mdevol or anyone else in the community. It's up to you as RD leadership.