A few things.
1. Quorum. The required minimum number of people for business to be conducted, a vote to count, etc. Example: There are ten moderators. One of them wants to invoke rule 8 (previously rule 10) on a particular user. Three other moderators are involved in the discussion. Of these four, three vote to invoke the clause, one is against. Normally this might be enough to proceed. However, remember that there are ten moderators in this example scenario. Let's say the quorum is six. Since only four moderators were involved, even though the majority of those voting are in favor, the quorum was not met, and so the vote doesn't count, and nothing can happen.
2. Personal attacks. I know this is common sense to most of us, but I see several types of personal attacks here, which I'll outline below. Please note, example attacks shown here are not intended to be actual personal attacks, just examples.
A: Personal attack against a specific forum member. "Jaybird is a stupid idiot for coming up with all these examples."
B: Personal attack against a group of people, or a business, on the forum. "Jaybird's Joyful Games is a worthless piece of crap, I purchased one of their games and it was awful, they should be wiped off the face of the planet."
C: Attack against a company or group of non-specific individuals. "Those idiots at Microsoft won't let me delay updating Windows."
D: Personal attack against a specific, unnamed person, probably posted in the heat of the moment, and not really meant as a personal attack. "The stupid idiot at McDonalds who got my order wrong."