Please welcome new moderator!

[a447]

Whether you see your remarks as "aggressive" or "forthright" isn't really the point - as a moderator do you not agree you should be above petty disputes and public arguments with Sglad (or anybody else for that matter)?

SG, you and I have been around this board a long time. By now I think we recognise each other's posting style.

Surely you have noticed that since becoming a moderator I've considerably altered the way I react to certain posts and posters; I've ignored many comments aimed at me and avoided responding as forthright as before, even though I've been sorely tempted to jump in at times. I've had to hold my tongue and just let things slide. That's definitely not like me.

However, I'm also a member, not just a moderator. Sometimes it is better to respond to posters like sglad than to moderate.

Just because I'm a moderator does not mean certain posters are free to attack me at will. I still have the right of reply. And I'm not a punching bag.

Finally, you would have noticed that I criticised the comments made by sglad about me, but resisted the temptation to correct them.

I said to another poster after I became a mod that I refused to get into a to-and-fro argument with him. And I didn't.

And I haven't with sglad, either.

[francois]

Welcome aboard, Captain Jellybean.