If anything I think the fact that Minimalist didn't change anything despite there being a new rule shows that just asking people to do it wouldn't have worked.
We try to have everything that is / is not allowed codified in a set of rules precisely because we don't feel that we have the authority to act without them. We aren't staff who can just decide to ban someone for any reason we think of. We have to codify that reason as a rule, announce it, and then see if people break it. That's just how our system works and I personally think it works pretty well that way.
We try to have everything that is / is not allowed codified in a set of rules precisely because we don't feel that we have the authority to act without them. We aren't staff who can just decide to ban someone for any reason we think of. We have to codify that reason as a rule, announce it, and then see if people break it. That's just how our system works and I personally think it works pretty well that way.