Shedding light on a three-month suspension

Let me jump the gun :wink: For the first time in my life, I asked the mods why these posts were hidden. Never did that before, and no mod has ever told me before why a post of mine was hidden. But after a night of sleep, it occurred to me that my best guess was wrong: while I find it all but dead obvious that a “reasonable person” reading the original hidden post would find the claimed offenses without merit, the PSF remains silent on the matter. So it’s the mods’ job to continue to act as if the PSF were wholly justified in hiding the original from the community.

Which I should have realized. The current hidden posts very openly disclose what the original hidden post said. I’ll get around to showing them on my blog instead, where I should have left it. I do think they’re interesting, on more than one basis.

BTW, by “jump the gun” I mean the mods haven’t yet replied to me. But it seems clear enough to me now why they did what they did, and I have no objection to the hiding. They’re just doing their job. For full disclosure, I’ll also put what I wrote to the mods on the blog. If they do reply, I won’t reproduce their response unless they say that’s OK by them.

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