It's likely the rule breaking, not the opinions.
Pure spin.
It's not against the rules to quote someone his own words back to him.
I find it quite funny that the very thing that has me on a borderline PNG has been bandied about by dozens of people on this forum since it was originally posted and nary a complaint was to be heard.
Getting a PNG will suck because I won't be able to post my work on skins, so I certainly don't want one, but in the grand scheme of life there are worse things that can happen I suppose.
(As for rulebreaking, it's all about the fancy custom title in one's profile. When you have one of those the rules do not apply equally--and that's been pointed out by plenty of people here over the years besides me.)