Here’s a link to the thread in question
And @3AxisCtrl , if you want someone in particular to see something (and here, i think you want me to read your post) it’s helpful to use the @, as in @puzzlegal . Then I’ll get a notification and come check it out next time i log on. I happened to see this, but i don’t read every thread in ATMB, and might well have missed it.
I moderated because:
- the post was reported, so it bothered someone
- the poster had made two very long posts about a topic that didn’t seem to have attracted other interest. And has made other, similar posts elsewhere
- the tone of the post really seemed out of place in that thread. I could see why those posts bothered others.
- there are other threads on EVs, i know because I’ve participated in them. And it would have fit much more comfortably in some of those. Or in an all-new thread, where it might spark an interesting debate.
But yes, it was a judgement call, and maybe i made the wrong call. I’m really swamped at work, and not reading as much context as i usually like to before moderating. Knowing that it was a judgement call, i didn’t warn, or threaten, and tried to give very gentle guidance. i just requested the poster post future content asking those lines in a different thread. I try to take “first, do no harm” as a guideline in moderating.
I’m interested in how other posters feel about this, and whether there are other posters who feel i crossed the line into excessive moderation there.