I'm not up to date with any drama around these here parts, but what you describe as your actions sounds to me like something... a regular person would do.
The drama and binary aggression is probably just a product of having to deal with plagiarism and abuse over and over and over and over again. It gets hard for a small group or individual to keep an understanding face on and just turns, inevitably, to bitter authoritarianism. It's more efficient, after all.