Before we consider this post substandard, we might want take a moment to look at the posts of the complainant, for instance
and
which at the very least are on a par with the post being moaned about; and also of the precedent set by posts of admin and mods in their posts also of late.
Yak and I tried to set up a system whereby we could establish a more strict baseline. We couldn't get it to stick for a number of circumstantial reasons at that time. Since then a policy of approval has been established that looks for reasons to allow posts rather than to clear them. Precedents have been set which out of fainess we must follow. If therefore we remove this post, we must, out of similar fairness, look to remove all posts of a similar type. This arbitrary decision making on which posts stay and which go based on the individual tastes of certain moderators is the kind of bullshit that made this forum a bloody nightmare for posters for so long.
In the light of this, heckling from former staff members who never themselves demontrated any kind of consistency in their decision making or how it related to the posts they themselves made, is both unhelpful and unwelcome.
BOC
