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Actually, I wanted to play around with Smoke on occasion (Arguing on how breaking bad isn't 9-C), and he apparently acts as if he doesn't understand the implications of his arguments and the realism treatment. He's also acting as if he should be the one that needs convincing. So I see another reason why he has the reputation he has.I believe BigSmoke repeatedly tried to get Cool Cat added, and when people reported him for repeatedly requesting that, he said "why is that against the rules?" Which was correct! Just bringing up a topic isn't against the rules, and we try to have our rules be general, rather than person-specific. So to stop that, we set up a general discussion rule saying "you cannot argue for this verse to be added", rather than one saying "BigSmoke cannot argue for this verse to be added".
I thought it was justified based on the repetitive nature of the arguments, and its combat irrelevance alone (which BigSmoke repeatedly tried wanking into notability).
So ye, I've been pretty consistent that I think the "copyright" angle was nonsense. But it still got added despite my protest.
Although I do think it's weird that you frame this as being about the "staff not liking BigSmoke". The majority of discussion rules are about things brought up repeatedly by different people. It's something that occurs for repeated tiring arguments like that in general.
Don't get me wrong, I admire him like any other user. I do like humor here and there considering we have a literal toddler on site.