I cannot speak for Valg, but I suspect anyone who has been tossed from a cabal for inactivity has been tossed for severe inactivity, not because they played "less than 80 hours a week".

I am *extremely* sympathetic to casual players, and I have on a few occasions tossed Outlanders for inactivity. It is always extreme inactivity, where the person's activity level is sometimes even barely above enough to keep them from autodeletion.

The reason for this, at least as far as I'm concerned, is that occasionally people do make non-primary characters, get into a cabal, and then virtually never play, only logging on to check a cabal change, new power, or check the cabal's current membership.

Obviously we can't always know someone's motivations when we do this, but what we can do is simply evict someone who isn't contributing to the cabal in any noticable way. You can play some very moderate hours and still contribute to a cabal and not have to worry about such an eviction. And, if you were evicted during some sort of legitimate prolonged absence, you can always reapply to the cabal in question.