See, this is the realness I appreciate. Genuinely appreciate. Wormie even gave me a slice of realness in the atheism thread. To which I say the same thing... it's appreciated. I truly wish this was the tone and candor of our group PMs but you were being sarcastic (and I knew you were, and you knew that I knew you were...etc). Thank you. I get it now.I'm not going to be drawn into a back and forth with you but I don't want to ignore you either. Moderation action is overwhelmingly (high 90s%) are in response reports by fellow forum goers. We respond to reports, neither Den or I are heavy on moderation the majority of those reports are rejected and people are told they need to tolerate or ignore the activities disgruntling them. We look at each case and just do our best to make a judgement call on if it needs action with a strong bias towards less moderation. Amod does not go seeking you or anyone else out. The majority of reports against you Vanessa are rejected, sometimes we determine that it's gone on enough that it has become a detriment to the flow of an area of the forum and we ask for you to tone it down. Every time you take it as us taking a position on whatever the hell you are going on about at the time. We don't give a shit I don't think either of us even read your posts outside of our duties.
Stop thinking the Shaw is a punishment. It's a place for people to be almost completely unmoderated. Someone wants to complain about Vanessa in a shaw thread, we get to happily say no. Call each other names, spam for 10 pages or a hundred all without moderation. All we have asked it do your best to not let it bleed into elsewhere.
I have seen you try at times, where you will respond to a poster in this thread instead of where they engage you. That is the right thing to do, do it enough and I can't see how you would have any issue with amod. I moderated under Suineg and I'm not different with it now then I was then and he had no issue with how I handled moderation.
I do understand your position that you feel we should moderate your dissenters instead of picking you, but I don't believe we have ever had a report about them. Mist also pretends to be a woman but manages to do so without the litany of reports you generate. The other one, porkchop or something, also never a single report. It is not just some man becoming a woman obsession that you keep saying it is, it's about your attitude, posting style and how you engage people. I'm not even saying change those things, you be you, in this unmoderated space. There may be a consequence to that behavior in that it limits your ability to post outside of it, and we are not going to run cover for you.
To get to the meat and potatoes (double entendre) I'm actually just stunned that there are THIS many fucking brittle snowflakes who send in reports over me on this forum.