After taking everybody's posts into account, I have decided to unban Robert from the server for the following reasons. While it is true that he technically broke the rules, it's also apparent that there has been a double standard for members of the server. Yes, his behavior is morally contemptuous – that being said, the basic purpose of this forum and its outlets is to encourage discussion rather than to hamper it, and the rules do not in fact appeal to any higher moral compass beyond its own standard.

In my eyes, posting or requesting a user's personal information has a far greater capacity to inflict suffering upon that user than to irk them. I cannot justify having banned a person for doing something that I believe to be less harmful than the behaviors of those who remained on the server at that time. Since there is a double standard, that original standard, by my admission, was to ignore the posting of a user's personal information so long as that user was not part of this community, which is wrong. Keeping Robert banned after I have decided to change my standard seems to be unfair, and an example of the kind of inconsistent exercise of authority that occurred on places such as Total Freedom. Authority should be exercised in a uniform manner.