[Kaiba]

Butcher just likes to skew the rules to justify his round on round inadequacies and his alliance (bows) allows him to make them look like fools. Says a lot about the competence there.

It has never been frowned upon to init roids. Intact it's been a staple of fort play as long as I have been here. The issue is init WHEN you have incommings, which gives the attacker extra roids. This is not allowed and is a closable offence. Benneh et al didn't do this, which is why they weren't closed. There is nothing in the rules that says you have to defend your incommings, nor that you have to send a certain amount of ships/value when defending. So again no rule broken there.

Advertising you aren't going to defend via your gal or r/p name is very much a grey area as names and slogans can be interpreted differently. That is solely up to the MH to decide, which they did, and the names stayed. That's all there is to it. End of.