In my opinion the problem is the ATTITUDE of the members not the rules
In the past when somebody was doing something bad people where telling him and explaining him that he broke a rule. The violator apologize, end of the story no one get reported.
but now you see this
OMG I'M GOING TO REPORT YOU TO THE ADMINS!!!!! YOU'LL BE PWNED!
Ex: Before, seeing people with a FL ID at lvl 45 was common and tolerable, we were just telling them to change it and they were following our advices but now they are getting sanctioned because of that...
The rules are fine but they should only be applied to those who don't care about them (ex: the DIC), And I don't think it is necessary to give more work to the admins for no reason.
All of us break a rule sometimes ( ex: ME just look at the sanction forum lol ), just because we simply don't realize what we are doing or we just forget the rule. You know we're just humans.
I do respect the rules the best as i can and try to make people respect it but I'm patient and lately we have a lot of newcomers so we must be patient with them too.