Recent examples of poor moderation

Thanks @polpolrene for explaining why I deleted @janitor’s post and asked him to read the OP before asking questions about it - again.

This was the second such instance in the same day, the preceding issue being his reply to @Tonda which he is also complaining about being moderated. There I warned him on the thread, to read and understand before responding, and explained exactly why I was doing that. He made no dispute at the time. Soon after he responded to @Al_kafir’s post in exactly the same king of trolling way - asking something that clearly looks as if he’s not read what the other person has written.

The reason @janitor is now getting these warnings and posts deleted is that this is a habit that he’s been warned about many times, because it devalues the discussions and the forum. And he does this in several ways. For example, he also has a similar trolling like habit of posting things which are factually incorrect, or not yet decided upon, as if they are true, which he’s also been warned about and which is even more disruptive and causes a lot of work for others - moderators and community members - clarifying or correcting the misinformation he so often presents.

For reference, here is @janitor’s response (quoted in full) to @Al_kafir’s post, which I deleted:

Who would be this coin given to and how many per?
(I’m not asking for answers, just showing where the problem is)

And here’s the OP which has already said how this would be done:

It would be fine to challenge the basis that @Al_kafir suggested should be used to distribute these coins, but it makes no sense to just ask how it would be done and then say this illustrates “where the problem is”.

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