Given your account of the management system here its even more understandable for KY to "raise pitchfork" in pursuit of Tank's exile as that is the justice system.
In my experience enforcement of the rules has been remarkably consistent if graded on a curve with other forums. Mad's a hands off dictator for the most part but bans are always prefaced with a logical progression of warning shots and reserved for only the most egregious offenders. His laziness is in phase with the natural ebb and flow of the forum such that we rarely endure multiple cancers at a time. Should we all start agreeing with each other he'll show mercy and unleash a plague of the forgiven on us lest the pot grow stagnant.