is there something offending about a ball of fur proclaiming his confusion

This is happening to me too.

I can't have a Galvantula and Arcanine scuttling around everywhere.

Last night Cat implemented some new moderation features. We've upgraded the infraction system so that having at least 2 unexpired infractions puts you on purgatory, which takes away some of your privileges (such as avatar and signatures) and requires any new posts by you to be approved by a moderator (I approved this thread, in fact). You stop being in purgatory when enough infractions expire to bring your point total below 2. Also, having 5 unexpired infractions results in being banned until enough infractions expire to bring your count below the threshold. We also made the infractions last way longer until they expire. Because these alterations are extremely new and have no idea how the community will be impacted by it, I imagine that there is some tweaking to be done soon. Your two-point infraction is set to expire a year from now... WTF?

is that the same for me

I am suprise that I still have an avatar after all my infractions/warnings and also I have no points because all of mine are expired, I guess I am just lucky.

so why do RK and NismoZ have year long infractions
what the hell did they do

I just want to say... it would have been a good idea to tell us about it right after (or before) you implement it to avoid threads like this.

final question:
what the hell did pie do? was he also trolling without us? I don't remember him even posting on VR since we left

All the issuer wrote was trolling on july 9th. Piexing would probably know more.

Making infractions do something would make sense if it didn't mean they would be given out with ambiguous reasoning in order to punish people unfairly. I don't really understand what good it does since I wouldn't have cared if I hadn't seen that it was done to a few other people as well.