Let’s take a little time to look at what’s going on, shall we? I realize that integrating new information and new policies is difficult, but there’s no reason to pretend that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia at this point. Marley, I understand that you’re currently under assault from numerous directions, and probably want to minimize the number of sources of criticism. But there’s absolutely no reason to do so in the manner that you have been. To summarize - and please, feel free to let me know if I’m beginning the quotations too early, or have left anything out - I’m not trying to cherry pick any information or the discussion:
I’m afraid you’re mistaken that I hadn’t read the thread, let alone made a token effort to do so. I appreciate the moderator “I get the last word, so screw you” attitude in being able to tell me to stop posting in that thread, though - that’s a nice touch. A literal reading of the thread at that point certainly doesn’t point to you saying you were “thinking of an example” - but it also doesn’t point to you instructing anyone other than kayaker of hijacking the thread, nor does it give any indication of what that hijack is OR what the reasoning for that is. A casual reader of the thread (excluding, of course, anyone who hadn’t made “a token effort to read the posts”) couldn’t, in my opinion, make any determination of what your mod suggestion was (ignoring the fact that your “don’t hijack” comment wasn’t a mod note). Ignoring that, if I hadn’t made a token effort of reading the thread, how could I “ignore” mod instructions? I certainly could not have done so actively, right? At the very least, you’ve done an entirely inadequate job of comprehending my intention, which was to highlight the hypocrisy of telling someone to not bring up Cesario’s posting history of highly inappropriate and unmoderated sexual comments, while maintaining a moderation stance of there being no new policy of moderating comments that have a possibly inappropriate sexual connotation.
So then why do I have a note in my user infraction history?
You’re right - it appears I received an actual warning. Which is entirely unjustified, and complete garbage. There was, at best, extremely vague moderator instruction to one particular poster to cease a hijack, which my post was only tangentially related to.
I usually agree with Marley’s decisions, but he only instructed kayaker not to hijack the thread. He didn’t post a note instructing people in general not to hijack the thread, so there were no instructions to be ignored except to kayaker. I think the warning was harsh and that Marley hit a foul tip right into the catcher’s glove.
Munch quoted several posts in that thread, which can he found by clicking the arrow next to the name of the quoted poster. Here’s the link to Marley’s warning.
Yes, the warning to Munch is beyond silly. I get the feeling that Marley23 knew he was defending the indefensible. It’s easier to over-react in that kind of situation.