Abusing the Trade feature to interrupt, etc

[Niwashi]

I never said it was ok. I said (in the post you quoted, no less) that people are inflating the issue.

Saying that it shouldn't be punishable is the same as saying it's ok.

Most likely the trade spammers (or whatever you want to call them,) are just stupid teenagers tiring to get a rise out of others.
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If SE was as ban-happy as the latter half of this topic is, there would be no subscribers and thus no game.

Well, there would at least be a lot fewer griefers amongst the subscribers, which would make it a much better game for everyone else. This sounds as though you think the griefers are a majority of the playerbase, which they're certainly not. Excluding a tiny number of griefers and so making the game better for all the (far more numerous) legitimate players would only help the game as a whole.

I agree that it's mostly just stupid teenagers trying to get a rise out of others, but those teenagers need to be excluded from a few games so they learn just how stupid it is to give up a chance at a game for something as worthless as getting a rise out of someone. Trying to ruin other people's gameplay is not itself a valid form of gameplay and nobody who doesn't know that should be allowed in multi-player games.

/busy is part of the game for a reason- so nobody can bother you.

It's there so that your friends know that now isn't a good time to bother you with things you'd normally welcome any other time. It's not there to indicate you don't want to be griefed right now. That would imply that normally you (and everyone else) does want to be griefed, or at least that such greifing is acceptable and appropriate.

It's fine to suggest using /busy to block a persistent griefer while you report them to the GMs, but doing so is not a substitute for punishing the offender, because it doesn't accomplish that.