>>And yet you continue to refer to the infamous "tissues and condoms" exchange as vicious.
Do I? In context and at the time, M had to invent new banning processes to cope with the fallout from customers who were ready to, or did, walk away in protest. As also happened this time. Neither episode characterizes an almost uniformly polite forum and community IME.
>>JR, trust me, most everyone sees through what you're trying to do.
What I was trying to do, expressed repeatedly and in multiple ways, was to urge people to let go of interpersonal stuff that often ends in grief. Apart from that, IMHO Bill F's earlier comments were almost certainly spot on. If you thought I was being too soft, that would be why.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
