Well, now that the individual formally known as What_Exit, and currently identifying as Brusque, and possible Curt in the future has had their say, I’ll jump in and say I was following the prior thread and felt it was a bit confused as well. It bounced back and forth between what the rules were here and what the rules were in general.
The first, if the OP and title had been more clear, would be a fair topic for ATMB, but we have an answer
Pretty clear, we do not misgender off board members either, although the facts in the Breaking news are being continually updated and very easily can lead to misunderstandings.
Otherwise, yeah, moving the existing thread to IMHO or MPSIMS to discuss what rules -should- be for the rest of the world would make more sense. But I bet it would be heated, and I wouldn’t want to be the mod in charge of it!
I do think W_E was a bit more brusque than usual, but attribute it to the initial assumption that the accidental forum move via Lumpy was at least semi-intentional. But he’s addressed that. And I see no signs that W_E has been getting more hostile, but that he and the other ‘new’ mods are now comfortable enough to act firmly without feeling as much need for consensus. I mean, I’ve seen old threads where senior mods and mods emeritus were a whole lot more aggressive than this one!