You’re deliberately twisting my analogy. And reversing it. My analogy was how a smart employer/boss can be critical of an employee in a non-insulting, positive way. And my implication was that an intelligent poster can be critical of mods in a non-insulting way. If you don’t like that, how about the way an intelligent teacher can be critical of a student’s decision without insulting him or belittling him. Similarly, a reasonable poster can be critical of a mod’s decision without being insulting or belittling.
And, Giraffe, I believe your memory of the Good Ol’ Pit is less than accurate. I hated those days, I dreaded reading anyone’s complaint about my moderation because it was inevitably accompanied by foul language and nasty personal attacks. I was so insulted by the form of the complaints that I couldn’t rationally contemplate the substance. After you’ve been called a string of obscene names, how in the world do you pay attention to whatever the complaint was? (And I remember the irony: “Hey, you mother-fucking nitwit, how the fuck to you have the gall to say that I insulted another poster?”)
It had hit a point where I refused to read any mod criticisms of me in the Pit, because they were too annoying. Sorry, Giraffe, I know you loved the free-for-all days because you never had to do any moderating. Let’s face it, YOU were one of the reasons those days came to an abrupt end.