As far as this goes, can anyone honestly tell me that there isn't a double standard?
If you can, and you can clearly state how there isn't one, please do. If not, then I do not see what you're arguing against.
Yes, it may have been hasty, and may seem to have ignored the 'human' component. But take this human component for a example, very briefly. If the person who wrote up the old Indigo Wolves studied the official factions to gather what he could get away with and what he had to do to make a faction, as he said he had done, and then the community shat on him for his proposal, does anyone doubt that that's not a horrible thing? So, argue all you want about the 'human' factor, you're not looking at both sides. As is, there's an injustice, and its probably hurting many people every month. If this is not made mandatory, I don't think the injustice will be addressed in whole, but the other side of the coin is this: People who are arguing that our game (and I'd thank you to remember that its a community as well) has too many rules, you've admitted that there's an injustice. You've also moved against the only way proposed to fix that. You're perpetrating the injustice. By arguing against this, and trying to maintain the status quo, you're deliberately trying to make the way things work here unjust. You're trying to be unfair.
