User blog comment:Crazyguy56/Moderator calls users a hacker./@comment-3978541-20120616175927/@comment-4052371-20120617180828

But the mods weren't able to easily see whether or not a post contained an emote link, which is why they banned links. So they weren't able to see the code; they probably just saw what it would look like when published, kind of like Preview. If they weren't able to see the code, it might not have been that obvious.