What?

I read his posts, and I also read that one. Thanks for the presumption.

What I saw from his posts and your posts are two smart-ass, vaguely-insulting-but-not-really-vaguely, combative people sniping at each other. I don't see him being any worse than you have been. All three of you escalated it. Except he is the one pulled out on the news bar. Mike's not the one going around writing & editing biased mod posts--that's what I'm talking about. It's juvenile. Why the jackass comparison between Shannon Burke and Mike, who while perhaps being stubborn and one sided (like the rest of us, really), is certainly intelligent? The best moderators do what needs to be done, announces what's been done, and then drops it. They also keep their personal opinion out of moderation decision. For an example of an excellent way to use moderation, check out boingboing.net.

All I'm saying is, this board took a definite veer back into "Late 2010's Muche Land" a little while back, and you might want to think about reversing it. Neither of you guys rose above the mud in this.