Except you did. Any suggestion from you on what to do with regards to policy or behavior, is an order. You're not a normal user.
Report the post so... you can handle your own? Which... is part of the issue here?
"If I wanted to threaten someone with a warn, I'd just warn them. After all, it can't be traced back to me (false, unless GBATemp uses a really bad, customized XenForo implementation),
Yeah, I also expect people that speak to me to have a basic grasp of English. Here’s a more complete quote, since the concept of context is alien to you:
If you’re going to ask me questions I know you know the answers to, I’m going to have my pound of flesh too and mess around a bit - all is fair in love and war. That’s me telling you to rein in the indignation a little bit and have a polite discussion where we don’t have to sling mud at each other for no reason whatsoever. It’s Pokémon, no need to get hostile.
What do you think I’m talking about here, a thinly-veiled threat based on my position (that you just imagined) or the *immediately preceding sentence*? In case you don’t know, “a pound of flesh” is from Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”. In the play the villain (Shylock) gives a loan to his rival (Antonio) whom he had previous conflicts with, under the condition that the security for the loan will be “one pound of flesh”. Once it comes time to pay back and Antonio fails to do so, Shylock demands
a literal pound of *his* flesh. In English it’s a phrase that describes something someone is, strictly speaking, entitled to, however ruthless or unpleasant it might be. In context of the conversation above, I was saying that if he’s going to ask me rhetorical questions, I’m entitled to give him equivalent answers. It’s a more clever way of saying “stupid questions, stupid answers”. That’s precisely why I said “It’s me (as in, my way of) telling him to rein (his) indignation in”. It pretty obvious when you read it, it’s right there.
As the Supervisor mentioned above, all the actions I perform on this forum *are* traceable to me, there’s a class of user that exists solely to moderate *us* moderators. They’re the higher instance you can appeal to if you think a moderator is being “unfair”. After all, “who watches the watchmen?”, am I right? Please tell me you’ve at least watched “The Watchmen”, such a good film, probably the last good “superhero flick”.
As for moderators and discussions, I’m a member of the site just like everybody else and I’m entitled to participate in discussions in the exact same capacity as others do. If I were to moderate a thread, I assure you, you’d notice
immediately because, as I said, I’m not “cute” about it - when I give someone a warning, verbal or otherwise, they know because I
tell them that, along with the reason why.
If you have any other questions or queries, you can pass them on directly to the Supervising staff - I always welcome any inquiry into my work because I’m transparent, particularly since I didn’t do anything wrong. I even *suggested reporting it* to you, which should give you a fair idea of my level of confidence in this matter. Anyone can read the post, it’s public. If anything, you might have a weird idea of who moderators are in your head. We’re just people on this side, we have conversations too. I’m afraid that this is a website, not Discord - nobody’s wearing fedoras in these parts. If you’re uncomfortable with that then I don’t know what to tell you - we use the site too, just like other users, so get used to it.
Now, if you don’t mind, *I* will get back to the topic at hand and ignore any further attempts at concern trolling on your part. As far as I can tell it’s off-topic banter that I’m not interested in.
