I think it's fairly clear that rasengan does not respect any kind of authority that derives from a framework, so you can't expect that he's going to magically a

I think it's fairly clear that rasengan does not respect any kind of authority that derives from a framework, so you can't expect that he's going to magically adhere to Freenodes community rules. There's a fair mention of "IRC drama" in these comments and I'll say this: IRC has drama in the same way that HN does. The volume of people that call this place "the orange site" or refer to "HN's culture" while chiding about certain comments is orthogonal to the drama that happens in IRC. The difference is that you don't have dang as a mediator. Freenode (and now Libera) leave much of the operation up to channel owners, even if they want to put in place ridiculous rules. These operators are held to very little, it takes a large margin of abuse for them to be relieved of their channels. There's also a non-insignificant amount of people that believe bans are mostly earned, even if they're for ridiculous rules. So, while I get this drama looks pathetic, it's the same kind of drama that occurs here that outside observers would like also declare pathetic.