"Personally, Ian's ranting and gibberish has no effect on me, but if these bullying tactics are to be referred to as "less than congenial",
then that is an open invitation for the whole membership to dispense with reason and adopt abuse as a debating tactic. "

Certainly it is an invitation to Musket to continue in he rule breaking.

The logical conclusion is that Joe does not approve of those rules as written. Its like he is saying keep making up nasty things to call people. but be nicer about it.