Tracing my accusation of hypocrisy requires acknowledging the rulebreak.
sabinati writes in both cases, respective of time:
Reason: if you don't want people to read or respond to your posts, don't write them.
Reason: shitposting constantly
Note the lack of citation to the rules which sabinati himself published. Does this not show enough the prevalence that there lacks a standard to which these punishments are measured?
We must assume that indeed, sabinati was acting on a rulebreak, otherwise the bans, particularly the ban of Lord_of_War, are being made with no sound accord, and are worse than hypocritical, they are groundless and should be lifted.
Before going further with Lord_of_War's ban, we should first establish if sabinati banned Lord_of_War from this page
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=32976&start=350#p473171 to this page
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=32976&start=360 ,in that instance—with ample reason.
Windmaker's case rests on the fact that we have no standard. Mockery, as shown by sabinati and ChildhoodObesity, feeding on Arcanist's posting, without this standard, constitutes just as well as shitposting / derailment / spam, which is what some might view as bannable. Indeed the rules as published by sabinati show them to be spam.
sabinati wrote:The forum is not your blog! Threads not even remotely related to the game may be moderated!
To retain sabinati's, ChildhoodObesity's, and Arcanist's skirting offenses, is to suggest that windmaker too skirts the line, and warrants no ban, especially when there lacks a standard for foul language and offense, when windmaker himself, per Arcanist's evidence, shows he does not use the word "fag" as it has been conceived to mean in Jordan Coles' appeal for a ban.
I again make my plea, that the bans either be reduced or become enforced with a clear standard (hell, I'll even help to rewrite the rules, provide graphics and crap so everyone is clear of do's and don't's).