Well, after reading all that (including all the bullshit posts scattered everywhere), I feel the need to weigh in my opinions. Likely, they're as useless as everyone else's here, but it's a free forum. I'm going to avoid going into the allegations against JR here as this is about DH, not JR.
While I certainly don't agree with the tactics he employs, I can see the allure of it. Most of the game we play here on CC is luck, not only in the dice or the drop, but in who you play. You can be the best 8-player escalating player on the site, but it's all for nought if someone throws the game to another player (whether by accident or not). The only way to guarantee success is to minimize the variables that you can - in the dice, in the drop (map), or the players you play.
With the rules currently the way they are, nothing DH is doing is illegal. I think it's unsporting and in poor taste, but it's his shtick and his game and he can play it however he damn well pleases. However, CC went ahead and threw in their nice little clause:
Rules wrote:Obviously any gross abuse of the game is forbidden. This includes but is not limited to: throwing games or deliberately benefiting from thrown games, intentional deadbeating, holding players hostage, serial teammate killing, hijacking accounts, systematically "farming" new recruits.
I bolded the important part. This means that even though every single rule isn't written out, they still have the ability to deem something gross abuse. So now the question comes down to whether or not this falls under "gross abuse of the game" or not.
Obviously, *netham*'s posts are irrelevant. I do not know who his multis were, or if any of them played DH, or if DH was one of them (I assume he was not as he was not banned along with *netham*). Which leaves Frankly, My Dear as the only player whom DH played in this fashion to post in the thread. It surprises me to note that FMD supports DH through this after reading the game chat, which leads me to believe that perhaps DH is indeed helping the new players he defeats.
Whether DH accepts to play any of these players on a different map is irrelevant, he has every right to decline a game if he so chooses, just the same as any of the players he has beat had the right to decline the game he sent them. Using the PMs in this manner is, for lack of a better word, dirty, but alas, the way the PM is currently worded works against newer players. Again, most everything DH has been doing here is in poor taste and sportsmanship, but is still within the rules.
The key issue to me comes down to whether or not DH actually has been helping players after the game. While I see both sides of the argument - DH prefers to offer help after the game so he doesn't lose, should he offer it during the game so players can learn better - does this aid actually ever arrive? Through all 9 pages I have only read that DH offers to give help, or that he has helped, but nowhere does this actual evidence show up. Whether he refers them to SoCs or not is again irrelevant. While SoC is a useful tool, it is a tool, not an end-all fix for poor players. There is no doubt that learning from DH would be very beneficial to any player.
So I ask DH or Frankly, My Dear, to come forward with these alleged PMs where DH has helped the player learn. I read somewhere (I think it's in the chat log that Frankly posted) that DH would prefer to scatter his teachings over 3 separate channels - Chat Log, PM, and Live Chat - so that "other players can't get the information so easily". Again, I question the friendliness of his aid, but again, there is nothing clearly against the rules about this.
If DH has, in fact, been helping players grow after the game, then there is no issue here. Sure, he has played very low ranked players and beat them, but in doing so he has helped them get better at the game and grow into better players themselves. However, if that aid never arrived, then there is a major issue here. That would mean that DH has been playing players under false pretences to defeat players but never actually helping them.
....But I don't give a flying f*ck about other people's ranks and how they got them. I just figure everyone who wears a Hat and above is either doing some version of their own shady point shit or doesn't have a life. And I can live with that. 
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