1. If you were at all familiar with my posting history on this subject you would know that I have always favored an openness in moderation and that I feel that posters should be allowed to state their disagreements with moderators' decisions. Indeed, if you will go through past ORP threads you will find that I have done so -- in the days when it was permitted.

2. I think that the suggestion that I am a sycophant for moderators would bring a laugh to those I have taken to task.

3. For all of that, Randy -- and he owns the board and thus gets to make the decisions -- has decided that any negative criticism of a moderator equals a personal attack. Personal attacks, as you are well aware, are against the TOS.

4. That being the case, my initial post has to be considered in the same light as any other post which says something positive about a member vs a post which is an attack on one. Is it your contention, for example, that because I can get a time out for saying "FlyerTalkerA is a babbling idiot whose posts are pure garbage" that I should also be disciplined for saying "FlyerTalkerB has made many intelligent and helpful posts"?