What’s there to report–the thread is against Ed’s rule about no pedo stuff from Cesario. Slapping a paper-thin fake “legit” topic on top of it doesn’t change the fact that it’s against the rules. If the mods have seen it (and since he posted his op like 2 days ago, I’m sure they have), there’s no need to report it.
If I was told “No threads about cupcakes” and I started a thread “I like cake–and wouldn’t cake be good if it was made in single, one-person servings? Yum! :)” I’d expect to be smacked by the mods.
Cesario starting a “Gosh! When should kids be responsible for their actions?” thread, given that his gimmick is to propose that any kid who’s able to pass a test should be legal prey for him, is the same thing.
But just address the exact issue that the thread he started discusses, and nothing else. Don’t attempt to engage that thread as if it was started by Cesario. Engage it as if it were just any person who started it. If you do so, and you address solely the issues at hand, and avoid discussion of tangential issues, you will be fine.
And if in doing that, Cesario were to make posts in which he violated the rule imposed, you can then report such posts to the moderators. Let him be the one who screws up; don’t let his presence in the thread goad you into doing what you’ve been told not to do.
Or just iggy him, which is always the best way of handling that situation.
Just wanted to follow up and say that I think Ed Zotti handled this situation really well by updating the rule to avoid having to parse out borderline cases.
