At this point, they’re not even *saying *“let’s forget about it.” They appear to have simply shoved this thread into an oubliette and are ignoring it completely.
Or were, until **samclem **was nice enough to point out that you were wrong about that post coming from a mod. Which demonstrates that at least one person on the staff is still following the discussion, making the vast silence from everyone else a bit more odd.
I’ll pick up the torch as well. The staff response to this has made no sense whatsoever, and I would like it to make sense.
Reported.
Reported for what? She spelled it correctly, and used it in the grammatically correct manner. 
I’m gonna go with “That’s a joke, son.”
If we’re going to start throwing fancy words like “oubliette” around, what’s next? Madness - that’s what’s next.
I know, so was mine… Do I hear the sound of a strong wind?
Moderator Note
Someone upthread said he supposed we were all busy chewing on this issue. Well, we haven’t been doing that all this time, but we have discussed it. I won’t say how the decision was reached or whether it was unanimous, but in the end the consensus was that most moderators would not have made the same decision that I did. My intention wasn’t to criticize anyone, but to respond to what I thought was a potentially unacceptably racist avenue that I didn’t think anyone should go down. If I had this to do it over again, I either wouldn’t say anything as a moderator, or if I did I would put in a disclaimer to prevent anyone being singled out.
As for the original thread, I don’t think it would be advisable to edit out my original post there, because it would almost certainly lead to confusion, but what I will do is put a link to this post in my mod note over in the other thread.
I’m sorry this has been such an issue. Of all the people who have been voicing their concerns here, and particularly ACM, I can’t think of a single one who doesn’t add value to this community, and it wasn’t my intention to suggest otherwise.
I knew my new [del]bribe[/del] membership would grease the wheels around here. 
Edit: And just so you know, I don’t think any of us were upset by the note or anything like that. We just didn’t agree with it. I didn’t take it personally at all.
Thank you, Spectre, for your gracious response.
Well done, Spectre. This is a very good step in the right direction for mod/member relations around here.
Thank you, Spectre, and all the other mods and admins who took the time to publicly comment on and/or privately discuss this concern. The willingness of the SDMB staff to reconsider decisions is one of the things that make this community awesome.
FWIW, I do appreciate that if you were going to have an overboard/knee-jerk response to anything, it would be in an attempt to keep racism off the board.
Good job, Spectre.
Thanks to All for carrying it forward, and thanks to Spectre, for coming back…
