I know the community is totally different. Leaps and bounds different. But, I used to mod for the boards for a pretty popular Counter-Strike server, as well as THE most popular Day of Defeat custom maps server (seems like another lifetime) and although you wouldn't know it from my attitude here I was quite the stickler for following the rules, and being as polite as possible, etc etc. And if I saw someone break any of our posted rules, they got smacked with a ban, no questions asked. However, members I knew personally, or members who I know had been a part of the community longer, I was more willing to let things slide and just kinda look the other direction. Like I said before, totally different community types but my reasoning behind my attitude was thus.. What good does it do to remove someone from the community who is such a big part of it? Other than the banned themselves, generally nobody cares if you remove someone with like 2 posts, both of which are spam. But someone with a proven track record and is a staple of the community, even if they do tend to bend or even break the rules, will be missed. It's like when the most popular character on a TV show gets killed off or replaced because they got caught drunk driving, or giving -blam!- favors in restaurant bathrooms. You know they did something wrong, and they deserve to be punished but is the show any better off for it? Usually not, usually you just quit watching. Huge unorganized wall of text is huge and unorganized. But those are my 2 cents, for what they're worth. About 1 cent I would assume.