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jank wrote: »

You just can't help yourself can you Robin. What you did just there would have earned you a card in practically every other forum on boards including AH. But we all know where my reported post in this forum will go Dear Leader.

I must apologize for my response to your original unhelpful post - not only for the delay in replying (I've been out sick for most of the last month, and for most of that, available only on mobile which is a less than ideal platform for boards), but also for the nature of the reply, which I should explain.

Here in A+A, we like to keep a light hand on moderation, particularly with respect to posters holding views which are not held by the majority of others. Hence when somebody makes a comment which violates the word or spirit of the charter, or looks like they may soon do so, we typically try to defuse the issue with a little humor rather than coming in hot and heavy, threatening cards, bans and so on. This, we have found, usually keeps the forum running a little more smoothly. You are correct to point out that highlighting errors in a poster's grammar is generally frowned upon on boards, but it's arguably understandable in the case where doing so is used to avoid a more serious public reprimand which would be likely to cause greater offence, particularly from a poster with a history of commenting publicly about their unhappiness with A+A in general, with its moderation policy, with its moderators, with its alleged bias and so much that it's almost, but not quite, an enduring mystery why you continue to post here.

Had I known that you'd have tended that throwaway comment - posted in a hurry at ten-to-beer on a Friday evening in November - to the extent that you appear to have since done, I'd have avoided the easygoing approach and instead issued you with a formal threat of moderator action.

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