In a manner, you're right.
However, who do you give rope to, someone who has been on for years and contributed, been respectful of other programs/users or someone who has joined recently and done nothing but snipe? The little fly-by-night names who come on with no purpose but to stir things up are difficult to give much rope to and Ironlung was warned, something I don't think I've ever had to do before to him, and he's been on about as long as there has been a board. I don't fault a long time user for sometimes getting frustrated.

By the same token, there was shots taken at me, and in most boards, the surest and easiest way to get banned is what, attack/question a mod or admin. I didn't ban/suspend for that either.