I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that the decicion to delete these pictures is reasonable from a moderation perspective. Not necessarily the banning (unless you've broken their rules before), but deleting the images is understandable.
That Miiverse group is about Mario&Luigi, not about random screenshots. What you have to realize is that this exploit can be abused in several ways to be detrimental to that goal. Like, you can upload ANY image, including things like porn, gore, controversial subject matter, etc.
In order to prevent that, precautions have to be taken and the rules must be amended to address this issue. But to decide which images should be deleted, the line must be drawn somewhere. If you want to allow SOME exploit images, you must have clear guidelines on which images are allowed and which aren't, otherwise you risk being partial and unfair.
So what if the drawn line was just "Mario-related images stay, everything else gets deleted"? What if I uploaded an unrelated image and just shooped a mario head in the background? People are smart and some of them get really creative when trying to dodge rules.
Ninelevendo said:
Someone should post one with the title screen, but a very subtle difference. (Like a Ridley silhouette in the background).
Case in point.
So in order to properly enforce these guidelines, they would have to assign actual people to review each and every image that gets submitted, THOROUGHLY check them against the guidelines, and see if they hold up. Then the conclusions drawn from it have to be discussed to ensure as little bias as possible. This would waste time, manpower, and therefore money. Money that could be invested somewhere else.
So the logical and efficient solution is to keep that money and just delete everything that is not a screenshot from the game and be done with it. That way you can put your resources into something else.
Like obsessing over censoring Project M
