Thank you for this information, his case is ongoing and should be resolved soon (probably today). As said before, it is a collegial decision and not the responsibility of a single person, and unless new discoveries are made, the case should be concluded by the granting of a second chance.

Why the hell are people being put on the coal list, without even reaching out to the user beforehand, giving him an opportunity to explain himself!?!? Something is massively wrong here!

Various people used their time to seriously investigate the case and to point out the elements so the decision was taken to add his account with the others to the COAL list while giving him the opportunity to defend his case, which he did through this post and on the Discord, and his explanations were taken into consideration and a dialogue was opened.

Adding authors to an automatic voting script is not a trivial matter when you reach a certain number of BPs and can lead to being associated with people trying to exploit the blockchain, especially when, as in this case, you end up with 7 member accounts in a circle in your script of 15/20 authors max.