I get that people don’t want the moderators to put their fingers on the scale to give an advantage to their side of an argument. I try not to do that, but at the same time if I see a potential rules violation in a thread, I don’t think it’s necessary for me to ignore it and potentially let it get out of hand while I wait for another mod to check the boards. I don’t think that’s a practical approach. If this were a paid gig and some moderators were always online, I’d be fine with it. And in some cases I will bow out of a moderating decision and leave it to others. But in general I think it’s okay.
The other posts were three mod notes to Don123, all about posting very long quotes from other sites (sometimes with attribution that was a little confusing), and these two notes about personal comments: