If you actually think you're supposed to reply to people and tell them off for making posts that either truly are pointless or whose point has flown clear over your head, then why don't you push for mod status? That would give you all the authority you need to criticize people's posting habits with the added bonus of having no one in a position to question you, save for Dennis.

Plus, if you're unwilling to get Dennis or the mods involved, then you either (A) are afraid they won't see it your way, and might give you the BanHammer, to which I recommend you grow a pair, or (B) should learn to keep your shit to yourself, since one day you might pull that and someone might see it and think you're Trolling, and then you have a better chance of getting the BanHammer than you do in Scenario A.

Either way, people more respectable than you (Mike Chandra, to name one) have seen this stream, even before Andrew snipped it at my request, and are disgusted that you hide behind the First Amendment as a source of immunity from Dennis and the mods. Speaking of Dennis and the mods, people don't have to deserve the BanHammer to need to be reported to them.

On a final note, Freedom Of Speech does not give you the right to act the way you do. It's why we have admins and mods. They have the authority to tell people off for how they post. You do not. If you want that authority, give Dennis a perfectly good reason to make you a mod.

The difference between people like you and admins/mods in this case is that if they tell me my post is pointless, I might consider editing to make my meaning clearer, whereas I don't have to if they say nothing while you call my posts vacuous, since you're not in a position to say "your post is pointless" while they are.

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