I heard him say: "I'll keep racing till the weed wears off lol". imo i think its classed as cheating because he is using substances to improve his racing ability
maybe lack of weed was making his ability worse cos he's nervous or something lol. either way, i don't care what people are on when they race.. as long as their game is clean, it's fair.
about the afk thing, no it isn't very helpful to go to sleep while you're afk but it's not like you're helping anyone by quitting except people who don't know what AFK means. if you're AFK and people start getting frustrated cos you're not banning people or listening to reports, it's their problem tbh because they're expecting you to be there when you've made the point of entering a mode for people that are not.
why do i go /afk for hours on end instead of quitting? well, at first it's not like i plan every /afk to be long. i might just /afk and alt-tab for a minute then next thing i know i'm watching a film. after that, i forget i'm even on ax
lastly, here's why i think people staying in afk is a good thing: we're on the hosted list to get more players, right? we all know no one's going to join a server with 3 players because it'll look boring. but if they see a server with 10 players and then when they join, 7 are afk they will see that racing can be fun with 3 players too. our game-monitor ranking and prominence on that website gets increased too when we have more players. probably not the most honest thing in the world but i guess we have to lie a bit when we're competing against **RACE+DRIFT+STUNT** servers which don't even have proper racing scripts:/