quoting things aren't usually a bannable offense tom. In fact, I don't think we have ever done it. Often times someone will say something against rule 12, and another will quote it, and say "that's out of line/that's inappropriate/that's uncalled for/that's against the rules/I am reporting this post" etc.
Now, we do prefer people not quote things over and over, because it just makes things all that much more difficult to manage to delete, and we may miss something.
Also a lot of the things darla quoted aren't really explicitly even against rule 12 (hence her problem to begin with). It's a big grey area that we have never really dealt with. Zero people have ever been banned from this site for the type of things ILA has been saying, so it stands to reason that quoting the very things that ILA himself isn't being banned for is more or less a very small infraction (if at all). It certainly isn't worthy starting a thread over.
Lastly, damo did in fact close darlas thread and even basically said not to keep doing it. So I really don't know what your issue is.