This is what happens when you start asking too many questions about the staff. Suddenly all these unwritten rules you never knew existed are enforced. Funny how this seems to happen over and over and over and everyone is either in line to brown nose or pretends it never happened.
What you wrote is just pure nonsense. It was well known that you should not be double or triple post. Additionally he was warned(!) several times by both staff and non staff members. Read the thread next time before you appeal to emotion.
I do believe there are situations where double and tripple posting is suitable, for example
- Multiple discussion threads where one of the replies is exceptionally large
- Multiple, multiple discussion threadswhere a single post would end up replying to 9 people
- Fewer discussion threads but with brand new members (who are most likely to quote the entire reply)
The aim with the above is to prevent a thread becoming entirely useless as everyone's reply is quoting everyone elses discusses, making each post 50 lines high.