OK, I miss spoke, I saw that as soon as I typed that but was to lazy to fix it, I should have said, open a message the GM.
With all due respect, Obnoxious, you’re a forum mod, not a Gm, now I’m sure you can reach out to the Gm’s fairly easy, but I would argue that it’s up to the GM to interpreted that rule, and I’m not sure of the exactly situation of the reports. There are a number of reasons that that GM chose to ban the guy. Maybe there was other reasons. The OP could have broken other rules of ninja looting, I’m not sure on that one, but I do know that if a player can use the item, regardless of spec, it is not ninja looting. I would wager, that it is because of it is entirely too difficult to enforce that on a players when they could possible use it, and duel spec is a factor as well.
I also will not suggest a rule wording change, I’m fine with it as it is, others may do that, doesn’t matter to me, I’m stating the rules as they are listed.