[About XDA developers] egzthunder1:
ok, finally a real computer to type a proper reply on...

As stated in my first reply to you, I know well what you tried to accomplish with your post and I also know that you didn't mean to target any one specific individual or thread. The reason I keep talking about OT right now is because many people in this thread decided to branch the conversation into a "Off Topic should/should not be allowed everywhere/anywhere" debate. However, I still feel that both examples you used are invalid for what you are trying to back up. So, as far as talking to you about specifically that, it ends right here... now onto better and more important points.

The rest of your post... your efforts in pointing stuff out have all been related to trying to talk about inconsistencies with the moderation. If people's ability and/or willingness to read the rules converges to 0, that is something that we cannot control (but we can and try to teach them as we go along). Rules are clear and well defined, despite of what you might think. They are far from being vague. There are situations that may call for an extended use of the moderator's team judgement, but that is a case and not a rule. Cases may be vague as they are treated on an individual basis sometimes, but rules are, for the most part, rather standard and somewhat cut and dry... What you see in terms of some moderators taking approaches to different issues is not related to rules, but related to situations. We run into new issues (with no precedent) every single day. We are forced, in order to prevent chaos from spreading, to treat each individual case in a different manner than other seemingly similar ones. It has to be done this way, and no we cannot write a rule for every single one of these cases or else you will truly have a reason for people not reading the rules... it would become a book instead of a post!

If you truly want to have a conversation, I suggest you put remarks like these away. The reason why "this someone" is throwing numbers and dollar signs at you is because I don't like explicitly cursing in open forums and because our swear filters would (normally) hash these out. So, essentially if I would have written the actual word, you would now be complaining about a certain someone throwing a whole bunch of asterisks at you.

Last but not least, don't play the "old member card" with me.... I too have been around this site for far too long (longer than you for that matter) to see it being dragged down by this kind of idiocy. Want to provide feedback about this place? Great! bring it... by all means. Want to talk about technical competency of the moderator team like you did on the second post in this very thread? That is a job for admins and Moderator Committee. Have a complain about a certain moderator butting into a developer only chat and essentially making a fool out of him/herself? Take it to the MC.

When you write stuff like this:

You are essentially calling moderators on this team "incapable" of handling development cases or worse yet, you are effectively deeming moderators as incapable of learning about development, and that I have a problem with. This is not feedback or a suggestion. This is a direct jab at moderators. I stand behind my team 100% and I honestly will not tolerate this kind of open insult coming from anyone, period. The purpose of this thread died on post 2 where after making a suggestion (dev discussion area), you went off on talking about inconsistent moderation, which you kept on doing on posts after that. Several people kept on suggesting things afterwards, but you kept coming back with snide remarks about moderation, lack of consistency, and essentially the same thing you've been repeating for the last 2.5 months...

Again, want to provide feedback and suggestions about the site? Be my guest, but instead of complaining, do some constructive criticism and provide solutions as well...