The Warning I got in the Bond thread.

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The mod instruction said

then you don’t need to be spreading your disinterest. Do not return to this thread.
Don’t spread my disinterest. I didn’t! I apologized, stated my lifelong interest in the Bond movies, and agreed with Andyii that perhaps this change will work out. I’m willing to give the movie a chance.

I didn’t continue any criticism of this new movie at all.

I thought that was the mod’s instruction. Drop my argument, don’t pursue it further. Otherwise stay out of the thread. That’s what I did.

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Ace it said “Do not return to this thread.” 2 posts later you returned to the thread. It did not say, “Drop this argument.”

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That’s right. Read the last six words of Chronos’ instructions. You returned to the thread, anyway. That’s why you got warned.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

BTW, the warning in question.

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I think the Mods were very patient with you.

I felt like you needed a Mod note after your first post. It was a total thread shit.

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Sorry. I wouldn’t have addressed that post to you if I’d realized you were instructed not to return to the thread. I missed the warning too.

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…yeah, I missed the explicit warning for aceplace57 not to return to the thread as well, and if I had seen it I wouldn’t have responded to ace’s post either.

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I was under the impression that my returning to the thread required dropping my argument. Which I was willing to do.

I’ve seen similar situations in other threads.

I wouldn’t intentionally ignore a mod note. I tried to follow his directions.

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Here is the warning in its entirety:

If ace had not replied to the thread after the warning, but rather only returned to read what others had posted, how would his return have been detected? What if he shares his computer with his family and one of them had returned and was reading the thread?

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Your ‘impression’, is unfortunately completely at odds with the explicit instructions you were given.

I’m not seeing how you don’t understand that, to be honest.

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The Warning said not to spread my disinterest and do not return to thread.

I thought he was giving conditions to return. The argument in that thread needed to end.

It was worded oddly.

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“…you don’t need to be spreading your disinterest. Do not return to this thread.” Two separate statements, one telling you that what you were doing was totally unnecessary, and the other telling you your penalty for doing it.
Seems clear to me.

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However, if he returned to the thread and read new posts without being warned, can you understand how he might have been confused?

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It could not have been more clear. I am baffled that you couldn’t manage to understand that.

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What do you mean? How could they detect if he read it or not? “Do not return to this thread” can only be interpreted as “do not return to this thread as an active participant”.

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If you were [del]told[/del] ordered not to return to this thread, then you returned to read new posts, you’d have violated the order, verdad?

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But what if he never left???

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That has to be the most unusual interpretation of “do not return to this thread” I have ever seen. Do you actually believe the moderators can tell if you are reading something or not?

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First, think: “If a tree falls in the forest…”

Then read kayaker’s post again.

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They can tell when you are sleeping. They can tell when you’re awake. They know if you’ve been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake.

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There was no “and”.