Concerning knowing the ropes, whereas you have been a Freeper for nearly twelve years, he has only been on the forum for about nine months. We mods expect to spend more time with newbies.
And as you say the better solution may have been to let this one ride as "open" and have him post a new one, caucused. Neverthless, what is done is done. It is my mess.
I guess I would have interpreted the e-mail more along the lines of, “oops, I forgot to do this, how do I fix it.”
But I'm belaboring the point, and for that, I apologize.
It is better to treat newer posters with more benefit of the doubt, although my own view is that nine days or nine weeks might be a period that would engender significantly more leeway, but nine months is almost a veteran.
“Neverthless, what is done is done.”
That's true.
I guess as someone who has been posting here for a little while, I've become attached to the idea of “thread integrity.” I have no problem with moderators excising clearly offensive or inappropriate posts, and in fact, advocated this for a long time before Jim Robinson finally concluded that it was a good idea after all.
But the level of snips in this thread really hurts its thread integrity.
Oh well. There are worse things in the world.
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