Ah, you sound just like a perfectionist to me. XD
It's a... different whirlpool than most expect, that's for sure. Some think it's as easy as eating pie, others think it's royal hell. But all 'n' all, it can be both a lot of the time. XD;
Well, people are also human when they make mistakes. And since I'm the first mod people usually encounter, there tends to be a lot of first timer forum mistakes. Heck, my infraction record isn't peachy clean, I made mistakes in my past (got infracted my second day) but it's more important that I learned from them. And that's where the division line takes place; people that make said mistakes, recover, and learn (+ people that are perfecto from the get-go) or others that don't learn and continue on the same swirling dark path.
And yeah, I'd hope you wouldn't actually punish yourself for that. XD