Most community coordinators are happy to answer questions and provide reasons for their actions and they generally do.
Yes, that has been my experience as well, up to a point.
I've specifically asked about "perceived community leaders" using copyrighted materials in their profile pics and splash backgrounds and in their posts without "proper attribution" while at the same time they've aggressively downvoted people for similar "violations" (often with little to no warning). And instead of some "principled guideline" (which I was hoping for), I was simply informed that "memes, profile pics and splash pages don't count". And, "don't mess with the big dogs". Which is frankly, logically incoherent.
(IFF) you're going to strictly enforce some "don't use images without permission" policy (THEN) it should be uniformly enforced regardless of "who" the "offender" might be or in what capacity the image is displayed.
Sounds like a community worth walking away from!
Yeah, maybe, I'm not really eager to "name names" but they're all still here and so am I.