Yes, the staff member could have just logged off and closed the client. That being said, the staff member was attempting to prevent the spamming on the newbie channel and the loss of immersion that was present for the other people on when they were seeing the spam and the bad names and the other things like that.

I am not saying he was victimized. What I am saying is that Matrik's actions were done deliberately to annoy/bother/poke fun/waste the time of the staff purely out of spite. Sadly at the time it occurred the only staff member around lacked sufficient tools to stop said headache from continuing for himself (and for the players who were logged in praying about it.)