They are (were) trying to force rule based actions in situations where they don't fit... It is a very similar approach to the way Enron misused accounting rules to make the company appear profitable when they were hemorrhaging cash... (there is a comment on volume four where someone says "it is just coworkers trying to help each other out". Left unsaid is that they are trying to help each other to find a way to ban conservative voices that they find "personally appalling"...