You say, "I try to set up a safe place for players to store their eq. I do it
for the players who want to play by the spirit of the game."
But why am I reading logs and complaints about those few spoilsports?
If you really enjoy those who are in the spirit of the game than those who
make your mudlife edgy, why aren't you posting logs of newbies killing
rabbits?
I think maybe you enjoy the conflict? Perhaps you do not actively seek it.
But you seem to revel in it when it finds you. As it inevitably will. Humans
are just so.