Every faction has bad apples in the basket, some are stealthish and their faction leaders are not aware of their behaviour. Such apples should be countered by non else then indies and rest of folks who interact with said faction.
Explaining behaviour supported with SS to Faction leader and after getting an answer from him, pozitive or negative is the way to found out, is it really that entire faction supports/ignores such behaviour or just certain member who's behaviour wasn't noticed till now.
I believe some people will tolerate such behaviour till certain limit as mentioned faction member is doing or already has done some good work for faction.
This kind of behaviour can be seen pretty much everywhere, it's the first impression that folks got from indie caps, and people automaticly judge indie caps as lolwuts until proven otherwise, so ye it sucks, I seen it, dun support it. Even in faction that I used to run I could see such behaviour from time to time, did my best to fix it, but you can't fix something you dunno it's broken, so I am always saying, talk with faction leader with supported SS, but over skype or pm, not public forums, cause we all know where that leads.
And ye I know, kinda repeating stuff, everyone are saying stuff like this, but really I don't know other way to counter it, and people today are judging to fast by action of others and not actually playing for a while with them and then seeing how they behave.