According to the time stamps on the posts, your post was half an hour after the mod note. Also, Discourse updates in real-time, so the mod note was literally right in front of you. All you had to do was scroll a bit to see it, along with any other posts that may have come in while you hadn’t completed your post. You also received a notification for the mod note, since it was a reply to your post.
Under those circumstances, I don’t know how you could possibly expect us to presume that you hadn’t seen the note.
Posters: Mods shouldn’t lock threads to let people cool and ensure moderation instructions are understood! It chills discussion and we’re all adults here anyway!
Also posters: I can’t be expected to read the whole thread! Discussions move much too quickly for that!
Yes. I took a long time making the post. I stopped in the middle of writing it to do something else, and then came back to it. I also saw that I had received replies after I had completed the post. There was nothing to indicate that a reply was a moderator note. I didn’t check the replies immediately, because I had other things going on. I’ll try to do so in the future, to at least check if I’ve received a reply from a moderator.
If I may politely say so, I feel like I’m repeating myself. If a moderator wishes to raise a point to me I’ll respond to them. Otherwise, I’ve had my question answered, and had my say. I’m not interested in quibbling about not reading the whole thread, or whether I should be responding to non-moderator replies, or other posts, while I’m composing a post.