I see we have a reading comprehension problem here, so I'll repeat it again.
The Rules say, "
DO NOT POST a picture with the watermark edited out in order to circumvent rule #4."
You say, "it only says not to crop pics to avoid posting watermarked pics." This is totally wrong.
I suggest you read this Sticky, written by the owner of this site more than 13 years ago, titled, "
You will be BANNED if you..."
I will repeat the last line of that post:
"Up until now, we have been very generous about editing people's threads for them. From now on if a
single photo or video breaks the rules, we may delete the
entire post or
thread without notice."
Now, tell the owner of this site that his post was a "dick move."