Just gonna defend a friend real quick:
why did you include ";)" at the end of it
Remember when a wink wasn't supposed to be taken in a sarcastic way like it is now?
You know... when it was actually just used for tips?
why did you also undo it straight after then?
What was he supposed to do? Leave it there and try to convince himself and others that the warning was justified?
It's pretty simple: After giving the warning, he probably realized that the "hi" spam wasn't worth a warning, so he undid it.
Why wouldn't he undo it?
ok but seriously: is it that bad that he uses a macro to actually reply to community members instead of leaving them without any replies?
This auto reply works while AFK as well, so players can't assume that he's ignoring them.
Sure, Lez could've worded his initial reply differently by saying "I have a script that automatically replies to anyone that says hi", but what's the issue aside from that? He made the script for this exact purpose. It's more convenient than saying hi 30 times every single time he joins a new lobby. I bet you know all about the constant greeting spam that you used to get as a moderator back in the day.
(p.s. isn't this actually getting a bit off-topic?)