I'm not an EX-classic liberal, I am a classic liberal.
I refuse to wear the liberal name tag because of what modern liberals have done to it.
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Let's not forget the threads that called out conservative members, which were before this thread. Would you have been happy if I punished those users? I think not.
One of the rules is about lying about other users and staff. Twice no Sutie has publicly accused me of using my admin status to "dox" him. The first time it was explained that it was info open to all. Shall I punish him for it, like I did for the last person who did a similar thing? Liberals would have a fit.
Both sides have done many wrongs, but it's the liberals that are always crying for their enemies to by punished, while ignoring the sins of their own.
Here you go again with your "shoe on the other foot" arguments. I do not pretend to speak for others, but as for me, if you explained to sutie that the voting statistics were available to all and how to access them, and he again accused you of doxxing him, then he should have been reprimanded. As for my own topics calling out certain member's BEHAVIORS, I felt I had no recourse since there had been no response to my reports to the moderator and the perceived abuses continued to escalate. If I remember correctly, I did not use the offending person's name, nor did I attack them personally in the title of the topic, the OP or thread, only the manner they chose to express their opinions. If you, as moderator, thought the topic to be inappropriate and closed it or even deleted it, I would not have minded, because at least I would have been assured that my message had reached its intended target. Hell, I would have accepted a warning if it meant my message was heard.
Now let me contrast the title of my topic complaining about mhorndisk with strangeloop's about Sutie. I can't find mine exactly right now, but it was something like "Replying to your own Posts," whereas his is "Sutieday surpasses Drwas as the biggest Troll on these Forums." Within my thread, I don't remember even calling mhorndisk a spammer, much less a troll throughout my entire thread. If strangeloop had started the thread with :downvoting has become Robotic, or some such thing relating to the offense rather than the offender, it would have been much less objectionable.
I don't know if you can setup a send-only email account on this site or any other. If not I suggest you setup a gmail account that you will never read but would use only as administrator of the forum. I think if we could get answers to our reports to the moderator, even if they are just a few words, you would see much less, if any, complaints about your role as moderator posted publicly.
Finally, again speaking for myself, I am not interested in having anyone "punished." The most I have sought was correction of behaviors that offend me and compliance with the rules to which we all agree.