This day started with something of a conundrum that's been bothering me a little.

What happened? Someone on here went and emailed the developers, telling that he or she does not like how I treat all of you, saying that I treat some of you in a different way as opposed to others of you. I don't know who contacted them, they didn't tell me and I told them I don't want to know. But while that still holds true, I am wondering what I can do differently.

My options as I see them are:
1. Unceremoniously kick all of you who have more than 10 posts, as you're probably not here to help out, instead just being a nuisance.
2. Go be heavy handed on everyone, slap everyone who posts more than once in a row in any thread, tell them not to do that.
3. Continue as we were.
4. Ignore the lot of you and just consider these my personal blogging pages.
5. Banish Mark for no reason other than that he was banished at Seti and hope that was what the mystery mailer meant.

But hey, I can tell you up front that 1, 2, 4 and 5 aren't going to be it.
I'm sorry if I do things differently than you are doing, would do or have done. My idea of moderating is to follow the meaning of moderating, be as moderately in your way, because the way I see it your words, your posts, your images are your responsibility. I'm not here to hold your hand, slap your hand, be your conscience or anything like that and not here to enforce those rules on the left on you either. Well, as I said once or twice, maybe when you swear every other sentence, then I'll ask you to tone down.

With forum moderation, whatever I do, someone else will always be pissed off about it.
That cannot be helped. Whether it's something on a personal level, or because of something I said to them on a projects forum, or because of something I did or lacked doing on these forums, or because my favourite colour is a different one than theirs, my lucky number luckier than theirs: only the person knows.

The next couple of days I'll be only sparsely available, what with food preparations and game time. Plus the obligatory family visit -- one I don't look forward to as everyone there smokes, and I no longer do. Yet I'll show my face for a couple of hours, before hastily travelling back home to the roulades, potatoes, fruits and hot tea.

I just wanted to write this off me, be rid of the wonderment and post it for all to see. Which means that this thread is locked by default.
No need to start your own thread to answer, no need for mystery person to PM me -- I'd rather you don't. I may delete your PM unread.
Edit: No need for all the non-mystery persons to PM me either to tell me you aren't the mystery person!

Have good and happy holidays everyone, and behave. Unless you have snow. :-)

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