Clean Slate Glitch?

1. Is it a glitch? Yes
2. Is expoliting a glitch against the ToS? Yes
3. Are people exploiting the glitch? Yes
4. Should a punishment be issues? Yes

Here's the problem though. While you may consider it a glitch, it is not a glitch until declared one.

Therefore:
1. Is it a glitch? No
2. Is expoliting a glitch against the ToS? Yes
3. Are people exploiting the glitch? No, because there is no glitch.
4. Should a punishment be issues? Since people cannot exploit a nonexistant glitch, there may be no punishments until a 'glitch' is declared.

The previous holds true for all three situations you have listed. Punishments were issued for the first two, hopefully it is yet to come for the third. The FM is filling with gold coloured equips as we speak.

Eh, no it doesn't. Please read more carefully. Your 1-4 list only applies to his first 2 points. It's completely unrelated to point 3.