Hello from Banned Camp! Player of Cheri Rifler here, I'll do my best to be civil.
I have no love for Mewchild. Players can attest to that. Admins can attest to that. There's a long a storied history to that, but running through all of it would probably go over the character limit. Back when Mewchild tried to apply for admin I expressed nascent concerns of a similar nature. I don't think Mewchild is outright malicious. That's unlikely, given the fact that there are people he does genuinely get along with. I do, however think that he's narcissistic, manipulative, and overbearing, both IC and OOC.
In any scenario that gets major attention, he will try to portray himself as a victim, or as a hero. Even when it makes absolutely no sense. About a year and a half back, maybe earlier, another character compliance disked Phi without IC or OOC consent. Rather than AHelp, he let the situation escalate to the point that a charban was applied, then used the event to gather sympathy. When I raised questions as to why he didn't AHelp, he clammed up, calling an admin immediately. When an officer was teasing him over some friendly fire with a taser, he ordered them to stop talking about it, and when they didn't attempted to arrest and demote them. They resisted, shooting him with disabler beams. Bad idea? Yes. He shot back with lethals in response, justifying it as thinking they were Pulse Rifle lasers. No one even questioned it.
He's heavy handed with his punishments, to the point of absurdity. I once pointed out that some debris damaging the station was a direct result of an expedition he headed the previous few rounds. Rather than shrug it off, he ordered me to stop, and when I did, proceeded to have me arrested for 20 minutes, apply a full comms injunction, and terminate Cheri's employment for the shift. The demotion wasn't legitimate either: He all but ordered the CE at the time to give him the go ahead, and when I managed to convince her to reverse it, as well as went the next step up the command ladder to lift the comms injunction, he and the HoP tried to stonewall it. Unless I'm mistaken, it took admin intervention. Another example, one not involving me? There are plenty of times where a prisoner is annoying him and he'll outright just abuse them. One scenario involved him using HV mechanics to break a prisoner's legs, and then left them there. It took them almost dying of an infection before Medical noticed and saved them. What came of it for Phi? Nothing, as far as I could tell.
Should I have ahelped or talked to an admin about this stuff in the moment? Definitely. Will bringing them up now seem petty? Perhaps. Do these amount to hearsay? I guess, yeah.
Something more recent, something I know the admins know about, is since I got the discord ban, Mewchild has sporadically been shit talking me openly. About how I'm never coming back and I was banned for being awful. Took some jumping around and asking for full screenshots to confirm I wasn't just getting riled up over nothing. That's blatantly against the rules, and I suspect it contributed to this.
In conclusion? Even trying to be charitable, even trying to explain away his behaviours as human error and reasonable mistakes, those errors and mistakes too often happen at times that seem awfully convenient. But his actions with overkill charges can't be chalked up to mistakes. Breaking a prisoner's legs because they annoyed or slapped him a couple times is clearly intentional. Him ninja editing Rykka's xenobio redesign before it was even live, cannot be waved off as human error. No support.