Personally the difference would be that without prior knowledge of their being a problem with the drop rates, there is no way to know that there is a problem with the coding. You win up in arms and get a kc, that could just be lucky, you go 2/2 completely plausable. 3/3... 5/5 would start looking a little weird and I would myself notify a GM to ask if theres something wrong with it.

Ban worthy? No not in the slightest, I did an event and got the best outcome of that event and after an implausable number of perfect scores I reported it as is my duty and obligation that I agreed to prior to playing the game.
Now if I said nothing at all and flogged of a kc once a week every week for a year and a half well aware that I shouldn't be getting them, I'd accept with grace that I would deserve to be banned right then and there. I failed to hold up my end of the terms of service.

Unlike that situation, this was a deliberate det of actions in order to circumvent normal conditions and force a different result, it happens once and you report it, SE would prob have said "Ahh well oops, keep the drops we'll fix it up at some point" it was because the players refused to let them know specifically because they wanted better drops. Those who did so do deserve to be banned, it's the intent behind the situation.

As to those banned, general sympathies for the loss of time spent and friends lost. Those who manned up and accepted they were wrong, grats it takes a lot. Those who are crying about injustice and the like, it's not going to earn you much from people, bar those areound you more than likely.

At least one person has the same idea, where do you draw the line ? I got sub defaulted on this comment and yet if any of you had been on that least you be screaming mad. You guys pay a lot of money for this game every month and you should have some "rights". One of them should be that if there is a programming errors its not your fault. That is all I said. So many people seem to think these players who where made "example" of where not run of the mill guys. No they where regular people who got overly punished for Squares laziness. Square knew about the problem and spent one month searching people down to hurt them back and then went about fixing something they could have turned off right away.

Do you really think that the players should be treated like the RMT's now ? After some of those people played for years you do not think they had some rights at all to continue to play game and be heard about if they where even involved directly ? Is Square so smart on something like this that they should be allowed to erase you based on their "opinion" of something they are obviously bias and covering up their failure ?