I mentioned that situation but I didn't call him out by name on purpose. Regardless, he had a purpose. He was useful. He proved to be one of the best hacker spotters this server has and has been a net positive for the player experience since he became staff. And, most importantly, he never violated Bohemia TOS and put the server in jeopardy to try to sell money.
There is absolutely nothing to gain from promoting zeroblade. He's not smart. He has no dev skills. Sure he knows about scripting, but xlax knows a lot more and since he started denying he did it recently, he can't even acknowledge he has that skill.
He should be on forever restrictions, or pemed for the things he's done. He's been, instead, given access to to even more impunity for his actions. Imagine how easy it will be to sell money when he can just spawn stuff in.
He ... sold... money. How is that all of a sudden not at all a big deal?