That's not the high road. That's realizing you made an awful joke that wasn't the least bit funny, and blaming it on your audience not receiving it properly.
I don't feel I have to defend the mods. I feel I have to defend people who are right. If you had a legitimate grievance with a moderator, and I was convinced of the justice of your argument, I would be the loudest voice in your corner. In this case, I am convinced of the justice of the moderator's argument. Thus, I am the loudest voice in their corner. I have my own mind and can make my own decisions based on the evidence at hand and a strong moral philosophy, rather than needing to befriend someone's perceived power group.
I don't think that's the least bit vulgar- and in reference to your rep comment, you don't seem to know what an acronym is. An acronym is an abbreviation for a commonly used phrase- for instance, here "WZ" would be an acronym for WrestleZone. I have no idea what you were driving at with your reflexive "he doesn't like me" negative rep, because you were using words that you didn't understand.
I'm not doing that. Deal with me on those terms, not on some "other people do this" terms.
I didn't treat you as if you were trying to troll or "own" someone. I took your argument under consideration, found it faulty, and explained precisely why. As far as telling me to shut up and let someone else argue, that won't happen, and here's why. I'll even enumerate them for you! (This isn't vulgarity- this is sarcasm.)
1) No one will ever tell me what I can and cannot say, unless I am using their property to speak. By posting here, I agree that the people that own this board can choose to constrain what I say, and also have the ability to designate that authority to their representatives. If I disagree with how the owners of this board choose to do that, I can leave. I don't own these boards, and I speak here through their good graces. They owe me nothing.
So I can promise you, some kid who has a beef because a moderator told him to obey the rules is not going to get me to keep quiet with "you need to kiss ass for no reason" arguments.
2) Moderators are constrained from speaking freely, because to get in a shitfest with every poster who questioned their authority would invite any other poster with a disagreement to start a public shitfest about it. The forum rules are here for reasons that help the functionality of the discussion; a bunch of wrestling geeks didn't get together in a smoke-filled room and create a bunch of rules to oppress the IWC at large.
I've been in their shoes on other boards, and it really, really sucks when you can't tell off some kid who's giving you shit for the most ridiculous reasons because then other people would start giving you shit for even more ridiculous reasons. You can't use authority that way, it doesn't work. So I will continue to back the moderators in this particular argument, because they are right and you are wrong.
For the record, the one negative rep you gave me has been offset by about a hundred rep from several posters on the board- you seem to think those points are important. I almost want to +rep you.
