What he dislikes is not so much the shipping per se (though much of it defies any kind of internal logic in the story), but the obsession that goes with most of it. But this has all been discussed in the linked thread, and including contributions from Jeph; what I do is apply the rules as I understand them, hopefully in a manner that will keep Jeph's hate for this place from crushing it.
Which makes me feel like we're at the mercy of a fickle and occasionally very drunk god (and the mods are the priests trying to interpret His will), which is why I became an agnostic in the first place. With all true respect to said deity, if He hates this particular creation of His He should either leave it alone completely or just delete it from existence, not rage when he comes along and, yup, those damn humans aren't following His will
again, leading to somewhat random death and great floods (okay, bans and thread locks).
I don't mind there being a code of conduct, of course. I just wish it wasn't based on the will of someone who, the last two times I saw contact from them on this board (albeit that was last November), was drunk and random and generally being a dick. *Ducks tomato* he was, that picture thread he made was not worksafe and he was c/rude to anyone that posted in it, including editing their comments to be self-deprecating. If he wants to be hands off and let the mods take care of things, then he should actually do that.
But I'm repeating a lot of what was said on the conduct thread (wish I had read it before, it was interesting), and he hasn't been around in months to my knowledge, so my thoughts are largely already in practice. I still feel like we're cowering in case he drops by and flips out that someone mentioned Hannelore, Marigold, and lesbians in the same sentence, rather than because that's actually detrimental to the atmosphere.
*Glances at signature*