To end this discussion and as addendum to niko's post:
The rule of stealing a player's name without punishment which you refer to, follows our main goal of providing a peaceful environment on our servers. As long as the gameplay and our administrative work is not interrupted or complicated by it, we usually don't intervene.
Let's apply this guideline to your case:
When comparing Stefan_Krips and Stefan__Krips or similar spellings, you unquestionably notice that it's hard to distinguish between both which may eventually lead to wrong punishment towards specific players if they commit misconduct. As both players are proven to have broken the rules in the past at least once, our admins have to carefully issue their punishment to not punish the wrong player which is time-consuming and can cause failure. This is not in our interest. To prevent this from happening, it's necessary that one player changes his name. As you are the one who copied the name, it is you to change it. This happened today when admin TheDude was asking you several times to follow his instructions and to change your name. Without any doubt, you did not comply and hence faced the more severe consequences of not following our admin by being kicked and eventually banned. The reason for you to copy the name is irrelevant here.
Final verdict: the punishment towards you was legal and you have to change your name.
The rule of stealing a player's name without punishment which you refer to, follows our main goal of providing a peaceful environment on our servers. As long as the gameplay and our administrative work is not interrupted or complicated by it, we usually don't intervene.
Let's apply this guideline to your case:
When comparing Stefan_Krips and Stefan__Krips or similar spellings, you unquestionably notice that it's hard to distinguish between both which may eventually lead to wrong punishment towards specific players if they commit misconduct. As both players are proven to have broken the rules in the past at least once, our admins have to carefully issue their punishment to not punish the wrong player which is time-consuming and can cause failure. This is not in our interest. To prevent this from happening, it's necessary that one player changes his name. As you are the one who copied the name, it is you to change it. This happened today when admin TheDude was asking you several times to follow his instructions and to change your name. Without any doubt, you did not comply and hence faced the more severe consequences of not following our admin by being kicked and eventually banned. The reason for you to copy the name is irrelevant here.
Final verdict: the punishment towards you was legal and you have to change your name.