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From this exchange, it doesn't sound like the Alexxarian was being threatened with /kick for failing rationality -- it was for failing to use the right linguistic patterns when he was consistently (and correctly) questioned by people using the right linguistic patterns. The exchange would have gone very differently if Alexxarian said something like "Solak's book sounds convincing to me" instead of "[Solak] logically proves".
MrHen's post is soaked in doubt and admissions of uncertainty, so it is nearly impossible for us to judge him.
As a participant in that thread, I saw four problems which threatened to earn him the banhammer:
Topic derailing - rather than engage with the material he was ostensibly replying to, Alexxarian chose to promote his own ideas.
Excessive linkage to outside material without proper summarizing.
Poor understanding of comment etiquette.
Vague thinking and writing.
Linguistic patterns appear in the ultimate and penultimate points, but they do not constitute the whole story.