Well, when Strafe and I went to your lighthouse to reclaim the goods, we noticed evidence of inventory hacking (stacked minecarts and music discs)...we have a bit of a vague position on that, but it's generally frowned upon. And as for Artemis, well, theft is nonetheless considered griefing.
Whoa. You are wrong here. (And anyway, you can hack inventories in multiplayer?)
The records were farmed using
Kiershar's method demonstrated in this video, back in the Koishiville world. It's a simple extension to a mob grinder. (I had one back then, it wasn't very efficient, though.)
As for the minecarts, I wanted to make a minecart-based cargo hold one day instead of the simple warehouse I ultimately opted for. But then I learned that I can't get the powered rails to push rows of 8 minecarts at once, so I scrapped the design and was left with heaps of surplus minecarts I had no idea what to do with.
(I thought you said that it was Tom who was hax0ring stuff into his inventory, not me...)
I can confess that I did steal something too, though: stole Sunny's lapis and then gave her back 9x the amount stolen (talked it over with her but I don't think she cared) and took three diamonds from someone's chest, then returned them later that day. I don't think he/she noticed. Mostly did it because everyone was away while I was online and I could not care to wait, so...
We did discuss it, and it ended up siding against you. That's just how it is. I gave you your extra chance after the sunflower field TNT incident, but you made me regret that just days later. To be clear, I didn't ban you; I removed you from the whitelist. Stuffman summed up my thoughts with "I have no reason to think you won't grief again as soon as you get bored." What's done is done.
(Ah, removing from whitelist and banning is the same to me, it probably isn't in Minecraft.)
I actually learned that you ought to ask people first before touching their blocks, so while I do not regret my griefing much (except for allowing others to blow up Dora's sunflower field, though it was minor damage, but largely irreparable regardless, and I never had an idea how I would have been able to repair the possible damage, which was retarded on a whole new level) and would certainly like to work on other people's constructions, these days I would ask people if I can "enhance" their stuff a little, but I've been thinking and figured that maybe it's better if I stay away from the server after all anyway, lest the people get a bad example and start doing outrageous shit thinking they can get away with it.