Thanks for the response, Morwen. If I understand it (and can summarise it) correctly the reasoning is basically that you changed your mind on it (Andy's post that is) being flamebait in the context of an escalating explosion of posts that contravened the rules. If that's accurate, that's perfectly understandable and a good answer to the question I asked.
To clarify a couple of things from your response post:
1. I have no disagreements with the fact the entire thread was catacomb'd (except that it probably should have happened far sooner, but mods are human and all that)
I did not catacomb "the entire thread". I catacombed approximately 25 posts starting in the general area where reports were targeted, based on a specific point that was, beyond being the earliest post that was reported, pretty clearly ground zero for the subsequent spiral.
Yeah, that was my derp. I was reading the forum through a smartphone app. For some reason it either showed Andy's post as being post #1 in that thread or I read it as such - I was multitasking at the time. For some reason I thought this was a separate thread to the one it was actually a part of. Sorry for any confusion that chain of events caused.
To be fair, I shouldn't have included that note in your post when it was tossed into the bin with the rest, since we're technically not supposed to disclose that information.
I know where you're coming from (rules/ethics for mod staff, etc) but I wasn't concerned by that at all. I don't report too much (at least I don't think I do) and I've no problem with people knowing when I do or what I do it for. Like I should have said in the original - no harm, no foul and no offense taken on my part.
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