Given a ridiculous infraction

I just received this mail:

yekahS wrote:

Dear Denerick,

You have been infracted for ignoring a moderator's instructions.

Discussion can become heated, we don't object to that, but when a moderator issues a warning on a thread to reign things in, it stops a heated discussion from turning into a mess.

For more information please refer to the Boards.ie FAQ.

If you wish to appeal this infraction you can see details on how to do so here.

yekahS

Your post:

Denerick wrote: »

I would like to point out the following:

1) There was no such 'mod warning' before I made that post.

2) The rage thread is supposed to be friendly towards light hearted banter, the use of a common simpsons theme to pick fun at someone a bit too thick to get a joke (Somebody didn't get the humour about Russian language swearing) is so common on these kinds of threads that it has entered the common internet lexicon for standard interaction with others.

3) Its a stupid fooking infraction.

In the interests of full disclosure, I'll show my response to him, which may have been somewhat hot tempered but in my opinion fully legitimate:

me wrote:

Are you for real? There was no moderator warning when I made my post, and it wasn't malicious in any way. What a joke. This kind of post is very common in both the rage and the YLYL threads. For Christs sake. I'm taking this to a CMod as it is my opinion that you are metaphorically masturbating to this kind of powertripping.