It is mainly virtue signalling, and it would be reasonable if applied consistently across the board ie RFCs to ban posters with other egregious real life and online histories.
Then I got tricked into visiting tooplustoo again, fun! I see the site was sold to some kids I’ve never heard of? Good I guess? What are sinking ships going for these days?
Anyway somehow I’ve gone over ten years without having read that email. My original join date was iirc in 2011 just a few months before Black Friday. Dude sounds like a Trump-level predator and shouldn’t be on any platform really.
Whoever paid six figures for a site that is a) dedicated to a fad which has been waning in popularity for more than a decade and is also b) actively hemorrhaging users. Those guys. I would like to schedule an appointment with them to discuss my collection of magic beans.