But when two of the main culprits are 1) leader of the biggest cabal and 2) the most powerful active character, it has a huge influence on everyone else. There's a very good chance if you're Battle or Empire right now and you die you're coming back to an empty corpse, regardless of whether you had anything to do with these logs.

It is straight up griefing, completely OOC and worst of all it seems these characters are actually getting rewarded for their behavior.