Right. And that’s the problem. I’m not interested in talking about this mod enforcing the rules. I am curious about this mod breaking the rules. Telling a poster to “go get a snickers” is not something anyone else would get away with. We all know that. That’s a problem. The mods should not be above the rules.
When I first read the post being discussed, I took the "snickers" line to be similar in spirt to dial it back and maybe take a break - but in a less formal way. And so that didn't feel inappropriate to me for a mod to say.
In the follow up, I went and googled it later and was surprised that "Have a snickers" was a lot stronger than that on the Urban Dictionary ("eat a snickers" was less strong).