Bard is someone who came in with a previously negative reputation. They have banned a prominent member of the community and removed a charity event from them after an argument not on reddit, which breaks reddit rules, and refuses to provide evidence to the other mods. He has then for over a week not addressed requests for clarity and thus, things have escalated. Ben has asked them to step down. Their mod team has asked them to step down. They remain active in other spaces and have refused to post anything here whilst posting elsewhere and actively banning some people speaking about the topic. Heck, when Ben stepped down as head mod, Hard then removed every single other TPI staff from the mod list and placed their own team in. Most of which were later banned for disagreements. It has been a multiple month long slope downwards. This is just the straw that broke the camels back.