I recall a number of times a FR broke something with a post - whether a full thread or a comment [eg buckhead and SeeeBS]
Vanities have a place and discretion is obviously the key.
Why wait for a published article to say something? Of course, discretion is paramount - imo this is fine.
Agreed. My point was that the 'author' of the thread did not label it a VANITY. The brief comments the 'author' made as a THREAD could easily have been placed as a normal COMMENT to any of the dozens of threads on this subject.