For the record, I found Tequila quite RP in his piracy...the thievin' dawg.
Threatening blackmail is a violation as an admin stated so in a post some time ago--though I don't know the thread. in the sense, you set up getting victimized intentionally to "collect".
The system channel "//ooc rule lawyering MUST stop" and the biggest ones guilty of it are often ones who have been here longer. Seems they feel it doesn't apply to them.
I pm other than the briefest of comments such as "//private please" when people start to argue.
Handle it as RP, go PM or go Sanction--those are your ONLY choices.