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Are you saying that the moderators getting stricter is blowback from users that were trying to get banned?

Not sure. Maybe.

What’s happened here, and is continuing to happen, is that people kept trying to push the few rules we had. Then they’d get banned for it, and there would be a community uproar that the ban was unfair because the rule wasn’t defined. So now we’ve gone overboard in defining the rules, so far that there’s a task force of something like 15 mods and players to overanalyze every possible rule and shut down whatever seems reasonable in the eyes of 15 people to shut down. And what we now have is a more complex ruleset than any site I’ve even been on, with really no end in sight, and a community which seems to want strictly defined rules and who then complains that the rules were enforced.

So what I’m saying is, either the community’s going to have to lighten up about mod discretion, or suffer increasingly tighter rules which they’ll keep trying to break and continue a cycle of ****ing about the rules.

tl;dr: This site has stupid rigid rules because it has a subset of players who keep trying to push the boundaries.