I didn’t think I had a problem. The mod note under discussion was:
If I didn’t think the argument was invalid in the second thread, then it couldn’t have been invalid in the first thread. But on the possibility I might be missing something, I went back and read the originating thread. I slogged through almost 2 pages of people going back and forth about other people’s attitudes of self-righteousness. I then read 4 posts by jtgain that were on the topic of SSM.
I don’t see how jtgain’s behavior is relevant. He was told that his analogy is invalid and forbidden. My opinion was that his idea was not invalid.
No, that’s not what happened, AFAICT. jtgain was given the mod instruction not to invoke his argument again. The mod note quoted above was replying to this:
It’s not clear whether jtgain starting a new thread with the argument would have been acceptable before he started the ATMB thread.
What happened was that jtgain started an ATMB thread in which LHoD asked if it would be acceptable to start a thread with the topic, which he did.