We learned that it's not your characters that are griefers, it's you. According to you, a significant motivation for you was to be a dick, to deliberaty be an assclown to someone else to satisfy a pesonal desire. That's the textbook definition of griefer. Like many others, I'd hoped it was just something you did in the game. Sadly, it's obviously not, by your own words.

We also learned that you, like several others, like to rush to ad hominem trolls, though in your case particularly absurd ones, when you are faced with your balloon being popped on whatever it was you were talking about up to that point. It's obvious you were getting frustrated because nobody would agree with your misguided positions, and so you lashed out. Not uncommon. Personally I suspect that it was at this point, once I started pressing you for even a shred of basis or reason for your ridiculous statement, that you decided to move onto the real griefing. Which only dug your grave deeper.

But we also learned just how good Shakespeare was when he wrote "methinks thou doth protest too much", because he could have been writing about you. You say now that you were only after the griefing point, but really it's clear you very much wanted, perhaps even needed (still need?) affirmation for your breaking imperial rules. You were practically begging people to accept your rationalizations and even after the discussion was over, and I'd told Essobi I'd stop, you couldn't let it go. Again, you will undoubtedly claim that it was all part of your griefing plan, but I urge you not to, your desire was transparant.

The part I find amusing - the rest is just sad, for you - is the end. I agreed to a request to end it, and said I would stop. Which I did. You not only were incapable of stopping, but you couldn't seem to understand that having promised someone, I wouldn't break my word. Even better, it was also clear you wanted this to be some sort of public display because you never messaged me privately, which surely you could have. At that point you just wanted public vindication, and you were in pure griefer mode, and you got nothing. That's funny.