It wasn’t directed specifically at you, although I don’t recall anything you’ve posted outside of meta stuff. I don’t read the weed thread and for all I know you’re a key poster there.
People complain about getting different treatment for CN when he also posts like an asshole, but he also established a perceived usefulness on COVID that earned him a longer leash. Is that unfair? Maybe, maybe not.
It’s draining to have every bit of forum governance be up for a vote, so we’ve delegated moderation tasks to moderators. Instead of rigidly defining a system of punishment like a three-strikes-and-you’re-out law, we’ve given mods some discretion.
Where we’ve failed is to establish clear guidelines to shape that discretion. It may be a mistake to give mods god-like powers to do whatever they want, but if that’s true then maybe it’s also a mistake to give posters god-like powers to post whatever they want. So what’s the middle ground?
Maybe this all doesn’t matter. Maybe this place dies and until it does UP is an open battleground where two warring factions sally forth from their protected communities to engage each other because they really like fighting.
But maybe one side vacates the premises and the other side has a chance to rebuild and show that they weren’t just about petty drama.