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I'm guessing you laughed because the idea of doing something based on principle is foreign to you and that the idea that someone might require a fairly high standard for proof of wrongdoing before condemning someone else is equally alien.
But no, you'd rather fixate on the person (Soleil) than the principle and condemn them based on the fact that you don't like them. I don't like Vyrce. He's a dick. That's got nothing to do with the positions I take though, as personality doesn't (or at least shouldn't) matter in judgements of right and wrong.
I really respect Adam, for instance, for ignoring the pitchfork & torch masses who whined up a storm when Medievia was permitted back onto the voting list. Adam rightfully decided that it wasn't his job to decide whether Medievia was violating the DIKU license provisions or not: It's a court's job. Once they admitted to violating HIS rules though and refused to change their ways, he kicked them off as he should have. There was no doubt they were in the wrong, and Adam is the arbiter of the rules. Whether they are violating the DIKU license or not is between the DIKU licenseholders and Medievia, with the courts as the arbiter, as that is where civil disputes are settled.
If you want to laugh at what is an entirely reasonable and real-world (rather than the high-strung, overly sensitive world that a few forum users seem to live in) approach to this kind of thing, that's fine with me.
--matt
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