The channel rules are in place to specify when disciplinary action is required both in circumstances where it doesn't apply in other channel and where it's important to stress no tolerance. The channel rules are not a comprehensive, binary guide to when somebody may or may not be disciplined, and that is where op discretion becomes involved. The job of the ops are to moderate behaviour that is actively detrimental to the channel. Occassionally, the act of moderation can be hypocritical just by the very nature of it.

 What people need to realize is that the mafops are in constant communication with eachother, and that any action taken by any op is known to all of the other ops. If somebody is truly being abusive and it's causing more damage to the channel than it is helping, that will be dealt with. There is no ignorance on the part of Tanarin or Xyl or whomever else to anything that happens in the channel. If a ban is made and not reverted, it means that Xyl and Tanarin agreed with the discretion that the op exercised.

 There is an unavoidable grey area where repeat offenders and disciplining them becomes involved, and it can be difficult to stem a developing problem from a repeat offender without looking like you are abusing, but again, any action taken by any op is known to every other op. The tolerance level for trolling and antagonization is dropping in #mafia, and that type of grey area is going to be tested more if people don't start to get the fuck along.