Unfunf's first reply in your thread was to give an explanation about what he was doing to get such high scores, because someone had asked.  He did not make any comments that could be construed as recruiting until after he was already called a cheater.  Also, since you can have multiple characters that can belong to multiple empires, it's not as if he was really hurting you by recruiting.  Furthermore, people were asking him what he was doing; he probably wouldn't have said anything that could be construed as recruiting if people hadn't asked him about his methods in the first place. 

As Marcathonas said, I did not make an offer to unfunf until after he started his experiment, and it was in the chat room, not on another forum.  Even if I made a deal with him beforehand, I would have seen no need to publicly advertise it.  And if I had, you probably would have just started a flame war anyway. 

If I find out that someone is using exploits, I ask them nicely if they will tell me what they are doing so that I can fix the exploit.  Ever hear the saying you get more flies with honey than vinegar?  If, however, someone posts their strategy publicly online, I hide the thread so that we won't have scores of people using the tactic. 

Frankly, the only reason that I got involved in this little flame war is because some of you are getting way too sensitive and intolerant and I want to make the point that you don't have to start a flame war to express that something is bothering you.