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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3394549" data-attributes="member: 2525">Limit moderator flexibility?  How so?  If there might be an issue, and it is a low priority issue, you ask another mod to make the decision if you were involved.  How is moderator flexibility reduced?  What enforcement options were present before that guidelines, which were not present after?Some users here think it is a problem, and there has yet to be an expressed reason why the proposed solution would be a burden on anyone.  That's the compelling reason.I don't want to email you examples, because then it would be a discussion of whether or not there was a conflict of interest involved, and a debate, and you would personally be involved on some level, either as a mod in the thread or a mod who you know would be involved with the thread, creating your own conflict of interest in that discussion (perceived or real, one you could easily overcome or not, the issue would be present). And I am really not up for that, because I don't see the point.  I think you would, to a near certainty, default to defending the moderator decision in a particular thread without some massively compelling reason to not do so (as you should).  And for me to overcome that burden, I would have to debate intricacies with you of that thread (and even then the odds of persuading you would be very low).  Because when linking to a specific thread, a decision was already made by a Mod, and for you to see the issue I am talking about would mean you might be implying you see a problem with the way the Mod handled it.  And that is not something you are going to do if you can avoid it.Which is why I prefer to keep it hypothetical.  It's not like I am some guy who posts in the meta thread all the time complaining about Mods or something, or even the one who raised this issue.  A user think it is an issue, and I agree with that user.  You think it is not, as do some other users.  Okay, fair enough.  So what is the reason to not treat it like it is a real issue?  Why should the default be no new Mod guideline on this issue, if the guideline doesn't actually harm anyone?</blockquote>

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