Yup, pretty much. It's that dumb enforcement of the rules for the sake of the rules, instead of what they were made for: to ensure the community thrives. In the meantime they turn a blind eye to behaviour that technically doesn't violate rules, but harms the community — it's Charlie mini-modding, Ed showing disdain with "lol" and "lmao", Fran adding noise with that "ackshyually" without addressing the matter at hand…

In Stack Overflow, large subreddits, and some old-fashioned BBC forums all this shit compounds, until the only users "surviving" there sound like pieces of shit.