Talk about brainless is when an innocent can straight up murder anyone with the reason "oh you killed an innocent no matter why" and not consider anything. Funny seeing maddox talking smack here though, I remember you as the one moderator that loophole rdmed every time you got the chance. You could consider that "taking the rules too seriously" as well.

How shitty or good of a rule 2.1 is really depends on how you enforce it. I personally never punish anyone if they call out the traitors bullshit lies, it is ridiculous that you would be forced to believe anything if just given a valid reason, even if it were not true.

And now since we are talking about anecdotal experiences(for some reason) like nepgear here, I can say I witnessed these chain reactions often, some players would take advantage of the rule to perhaps kill a person they disliked. Back when I started playing on the server a couple of years ago and learned about this rule, I would too, take advantage of it. I would kill people for retaliating on rdming players.

As the rule currently stands you're supposed to believe any valid excuse a killer gives, unless you are 100% certain that the given situation did not happen, it really should be changed so you could take a risk and not believe a traitors words and not get punished for doing so.
I already enforce this rule in this way since I believe it improves the game mode and player experience, might not be what you're supposed to do but this is what I strongly believe.

P.S. Using the excuse "oh he killed an innocent" was just as strong as using "oh he tried to kill me" nowadays with the current 2.1