Apologies for the delayed response. Russ doesn’t seem to have been around despite saying they’d come back… a while ago. Anyways, there’s still one thing to handle in regards to the ban after reviewing everything.
This is correct. Though your response was justified on an individual level, a punishment of some kind (which Russ delivered as a kick warning) was also justified since it went against the rules of the server. If another player is breaking the rules (such as through targeted profanity, the case with Spl1t), that is not a valid reason to break the rules, and instead you should report the original offenders. Will you keep that in mind for the future?