Neither your first or last assertion is correct, and the middle one is only partially correct. I'll repeat what happened in fewer words:
1) I wanted to give him a small slap.
2) I gave him a small slap.
3) My small slap meant that he got a ban under the totting up procedure.
4) I could have reversed my slap so that the ban that was automatically generated was reversed. I chose not to do that.
That's it.
At no stage in my previous post did I refer to "playing by the rules", nor did I imply that was the explanation.
Otherwise, your riposte is entirely accurate.
You don't need to justify this to me. I have already made my mind up that the post tonight was amusing and anyone over the age of 10 wouldn't have got annoyed about it. Anyone who did is a little precious and anyone who feels this final infraction deserves a ban, just wanted to ban the poor kid.
Anyway don't waste your time trying to explain yourself. It's a waste of both of our times, but it's appreciated that you went to the efforts to so.