Originally Posted by
Kisho
On the first one: no, that wouldn't be acceptable, because it would be explicitly in the contract of employment that he is not to take any of the money. It's a different situation.
For the second part, about just banning him to make an example? Here's an example of how the case is not as clearcut as you may like to think:
Bob is a newly promoted officer in a guild. Jess is the guild master. Henry is another officer, been with the guild for a long time. Henry didn't approve of Bob's promotion but was over-ruled, because Jess believed Bob was trustworthy and could do a good job. Thus, Henry hatches a plan.
He goes to Bob and asks to speak to him on ventrilo. He tells Bob that Jess asked him to clear out the guild bank so they could start afresh, get some useful stuff in there, clear out all the garbage. Only Henry has too much in his bags, oh no! So Henry asks Bob to do the job for him instead. Bob agrees, eager to prove himself as trustworthy, and he has no reason to suspect Henry's motivations.
Bob then rushes off to the guild bank and starts clearing it out. Henry waits a bit, then sends a hurried text to Jess (who is offline at the time but has shared her mobile phone number with the officers in case of an emergency), telling her how Bob is stealing all of the guild bank! Henry can't demote Bob, they share the same rank, so he has to go to Jess. Jess then panics, logs in in a rush and gkicks Bob before he can do any more 'damage'. She also puts in a report with the Game Masters before Bob has a chance to explain himself. He then gets banned from the game, even though as far as he was aware he was doing what the guild wanted.
As you can see, GMs intervening in social issues would only make the matter worse. In the above circumstance there may have been time to fix the issue before Bob was banned, to sort out the mis-understanding. But involving GMs will mean Bob gets banned (temporarily or otherwise), gets angry, perhaps ends up taking all the stuff for real, and it all just spirals out of control.
Social issues are very tricky to mediate, so Blizzard do the right thing by just staying out of it entirely.