The staff, here, take a Humpty Dumpty approach to applying the rules. what is actually written is meaningless.
Every rule, here, means only what whatever moderator is applying it at any given time chooses for it to mean, regardless of what it actually says.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
—Humpty Dumpty, as written in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
You can strictly obey all the stated rules of this forum, according to how they are literally written, and if a mod has it in for you, that mod will make some excuse to falsely infract you for allegedly violating one of those rules, no matter how whatever rule is being applied needs to be stretched, distorted, or outright lied about to cover what it is that you allegedly did.
And if the mods like you, you can pretty much violate all of the rules with impunity, and they won't do shit about it.