WhiteShark
Learned
Firstly, using a portion of someone's username that also happens to be their actual first name (which I'm taking your word for here, I didn't check) is not comparable to using someone's real life first name which they did not publish. Secondly, the "pattern of behavior" surrounding it? You can make a case that Kalin is """obsessed""" but I don't think any of the others using the (((T)))-word exhibited any pattern of behavior other than exercise of freedom of speech. If they were banned because they violated a specific prohibition, fine; but why, then, was that prohibition instated if not because of the broader rule regarding private information? Is not the rule against sharing private details the primary reason that users were told not to use the (((T)))-word? If it wasn't, then the prohibition against the (((T)))-word is completely arbitrary.Oh, so it wasn't for the (((T)))-word? So it would be fine if I found out someone else's real life name and started posting it as long as I wasn't """obsessed""" and wasn't expressly forbidden from using that particular name? Or would that actually go against Codex rules and get me banned? Which is it?
People can and have knocked themselves out calling felipepe Felipe or Jason Liang Jason or David Cernat David and so on. If the rabblerousers had self-control I'm sure they could have eventually gone back or will possibly be able to occasionally refer to Infinitron by his first name again. For some reason they think it's solely about the name (something no one has even been punished for in all the years he's been referred to by his name) and not the recent pattern of behavior around it.