As per Colibri’s instructions, I’m starting this thread to complain about the sole warning I’ve received in my 7 years on the boards.
I’ll also complain about Colibri’s justification for the warning, which is different than the actual reason given for the warning.
At no time did I say or imply that I was going to ignore tomndebb’s instructions. I wasn’t aware that disagreeing with a mod note or instruction was in and of itself cause for a warning, and so far, I haven’t been able to find that anywhere in the rules for the SDMB.
And my protesting tomndebb’s instruction as something I had not done (altered the meaning of a quote) was based on previous emails I had exchanged with Idle Thoughts and twickster, where I was told that any insertion of <snip> into a quote was perfectly fine. It seemed to me that the important thing was that the ellipses indicated that something was missing, and so I followed that protocol when I typed <blah blah blah meaningless drivel>. Is there really any chance at all that another poster believed that the original post I was quoting contained those words? Is there any chance at all that anyone wouldn’t know that they had been inserted by me, just like <snip> is inserted by a poster who doesn’t wish or need to quote an entire post?
Contrary to Colibri’s characterization that I “falsely claimed that you hadn’t violated the rule”, I was explaining that I didn’t think I had, because <snip> was okay; how could any other words in the ellipses somehow be altering a quote?
My response to tomndebb indicates that as far as I knew, I was okay to do what I did, but never even approaches anything resembling a refusal to follow his instructions. At best, it simply lacks obeisance; at worst it argues the point. I thought it was okay to post disagreement with mod warnings in ATMB, but I got warned for doing so.
And, I wasn’t warned for disagreeing with his characterization of my actions (which is all I did), I was warned for “Failure to follow a moderator’s instructions”, which is demonstrably untrue: I never failed to follow tomndebb’s instructions, either in that thread or at any later date. Yet now, thanks to the other ATMB thread on warnings, I find out that mod warnings will never be expunged.
Well, since I didn’t do what I was warned about, I’d like my warning removed.