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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 3396084" data-attributes="member: 2525">It looks like three of your users think it is currently a problem.  Not hypothetical, not maybe, not potentially, not some day, but currently a problem.  I have explained my reluctance to focus on particular already-closed threads: because the very bias a mod should have to defend another mods past decisions will make a discussion of a particular closed thread that already happened useless. No mod is going to publically say another mod was wrong over such a relatively minor issue, and so no discussion would really be furthered by even mentioning it.If we call out a particular closed thread, you and others will defend the mod decision and explain why it was fine and not an issue (for the perfectly reasonable reasons listed above).  If we do not call out a particular closed thread, you and others will claim this is all hypothetical because we cannot point to a thread where this is going on.  So you have us in a catch-22.  Any offer we make or do not make to back up this issue will not help.So we fall back on the only thing we have - telling you this is an issue to us, and unless there is a reason why doing something about it would harm anyone, the fact that it is an issue to us should have some meaning beyond a blanket dismissal as all hypothetical.I understand that you think there is no issue, and I think that is a valid position.  But I don't understand why you and a couple of others continue to frame this debate as if nobody thinks it's a problem and it's actually all hypothetical and we shouldn't make a rule about something that nobody thinks is actually going on.  That is not the case.  Perhaps some users (like myself) are being overly sensitive weenies.   But us overly sensitive weenies think this is a real thing actually currently happening, and not some mythical future maybe possibility.</blockquote>

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