First of all, I am not condone grief in general but after a lot of people have provided their stories and conclusions about the mod, I want to give the general context and facts about the matter and how it is a huge problem for Klei servers.
For anyone who doesn't play in Klei servers, THIS client mod tries to bottle-neck official Klei public servers by automatically kicking people out of the server if their steam ID or Klei ID lists in a blocklist. Not only causes public-shaming players on the list, but it also prevents people from playing multiplayer on the Klei servers if anyone installs the mod.
Tranoze, the creator of this mod, is hosting several blocklists on the internet containing the steam IDs and Klei IDs of many people. The links are made difficult to find but I managed to get them. The four blocklists are below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/znf25nkhafa1v5z/blocklist.txt
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ty3isbcuyhwtva/blocklist.txt
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ssw2dmwpp29axmy/blocklist.txt
https://www.dropbox.com/s/of1d70x2e8qqw3p/blocklist.txt
The modder when asked for that takes the IDs of peoplet, then adds them to one of those lists. The modder tries to backseat moderating free servers that don't belong to him. He may also have done that for personal uses with his group such as preserving the player slots for his friends or AFK- scripting to keep a server run indefinitely
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/129108-poll-on-public-server-takeovers/
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/128385-klei-should-add-more-in-game-method-to-recover-from-griefers-attack/?do=findComment&comment=1442604
https://ibb.co/BZLtky0
https://ibb.co/3ssBwH8
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/115794-8200-days-public-server-and-still-running/page/2#comment-1308771_wrap
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/128385-klei-should-add-more-in-game-method-to-recover-from-griefers-attack/?do=findComment&comment=1443507
These 3rd and 4th pieces of evidence (images + links) can be crossed with a line in the source code available in the file modmain.lua by downloading the mod. In the post, we see the "Raider" which is also used in the source code of the mod.
Line 20 of the mod :
["1ty3isbcuyhwtva"] = GetModConfigData("Raider"), -- 1 2 3,
matches the second dropbox URL for the second list.
That evidence matches line 19 in the source code of the mod, which is also the first list in the dropbox links above :
["znf25nkhafa1v5z"] = GetModConfigData("DSTBan"), -- 1 2 3,
Here we can see the mod using the list of the group "DST" which is hosting the "DST" dedicated servers such as "DST Germany" "DST United Kingdom" etc. While it should be normal for anyone to get a ban from their servers if they violated the group rule or their decision to do so, the group rule and evidence are not solid for a PERMANENT ban in Klei servers. Their standard and reason they share their ban list are also questionable: They hide the ban list to the regulars but they share players Klei ID and steam URL (the group mention nothing about they SENT players private information and gameplay data to a third party mod) to a problematic modder which him and his group is violated their rules (blocking portals, intentionally sabotaging or crashing the server, monopolizing or preventing others from accessing a valuable or necessary resource, abusing vote kicks or using the vote kick feature to prevent people from joining servers). Finally, one of their admin can be seen in this video abuse vote kick system, crashing Klei servers, and doing shenanigans in Klei server within the server author of the mod was hostage (they refuse to ban her as well)
The "Raider" ban list is even more nonsense since it provided ZERO proof. The group "Raider" - assume it is "Server Raider" group, is straight-up a griefing group that was block portal with tentacle, maze, abused vote kicked, hostage servers before Klei implemented portal protection (none of the Raider members is in the list, of course). THIS MOD IS LIKELY THE RESULT OF SUCH IMPLEMENT, FOR THESE PRO GRIEFERS TO GATE-KEEPING SERVERS BY KICKING EVERYONE OUT.
If moderation must be done it should be up to the Klei to moderate it (the hosts of the servers). In this case, a person external to Klei (and to servers hosted by people in-game) is applying a harmful moderation on public servers not belonging to them by distributing a mod and letting the entire community use it. People shouldn't be prevented from playing because someone external to the game's development judging them without a fair system. The moderation appears to be ill - judge. By looking at the "Raider" list, we can see arbitrarily decided reasons without any evidence to back up or straight up NO reason.
For how the mod works, servers have a built-in kicking system by default . The mod is automatically making people using it throwing kicks very fast towards the players on the list, even while their game is loading (which forces them out inside the loading screen). People in the list have to find the mod's page by themself and since they were kicked during the loading screen they don't even have a chance to know the people using the mod and where they have to go, and for what reason that kick happens. This is the major problem. Targetted accounts (form both lists), with hours of playtime ranging from 2.6h to 1000+h, ban form 5 years ago, and some don't speak English, in the sample I took, are prevented to play on the Klei servers by any people using the mod because those two groups obviously won't bother about anyone they add and just want petty revenge. It is very likely the "banned" players don't know why they are banned and neither from when, and the uninformed users of this discriminating mod won't see the real issue behind it which is handled by lazy corrupted people.
I don't know it much, but in the general context of applying moderation, I suppose someone being ban from somewhere should be told in advance. The reason and duration should be clear and there will be a given place to attempt an appeal. Especially not from someone outside of Klei's company with bad intentions and reputation. It costs time and money to purchase the game, to obtain characters and cosmetic skins. When blocking a player off the server service, the mod takes money from both the customer and Klei assumes the player could be innocent or getting ban over trivial things.
In conclusion, I would like to have answers: Is this mod is violated their community standard by harassing players that try to use Klei services? Is this alright to Klei that their players as the result of this mod are being public shaming, discriminated and harassed by a scummy petty minority group of "elite" player that tries to back-seat moderating Klei servers for personal uses? Should Klei owners of both the game and servers moderate or implement an actual feature for their server to stop extreme vote-kick abuse and griefing?