OK, so we’ve established that Hail ants did, indeed, break a GQ rule, and that, while sometimes such infractions go without a warning, that’s acceptable because moderators aren’t around 24/7 and can’t be expected to police stuff that they don’t see.
Fair enough. I agree that you folks can’t see everything, especially given the number of posts this place gets.
Here’s another GQ rule:
By my count, GQ mods have admonished Jinx at least 7 times in the last 3 years to stop breaking that rule. On two of those occasions, including one a couple of weeks back, you were the moderator in question. Why, then, not a single formal warning, either for breaking the rule itself, or for (repeated) refusals to obey moderator instructions? It’s not like you missed these instances among all the other SDMB posts; as my linked post shows, you specifically noted the problems and, in a few cases, shut the thread in question.
You said, in the other thread where i brought this issue up:
If Jinx gets that sort of kid glove treatment after hundreds of ridiculous threads and multiple moderator cautions over an extended period, why not treat Hail Ants’ minor indiscretion with a similar, moderate response?