>The implication that I am angling for a place on the staff is
>inherently absurd.

And yet, it's happened many times before, hence our w{e}ariness...

>I'm sorry if I have inadvertently exposed you to the un-American idea
>of "not being egotistical to the point of implosion".

... and the last guy who did it was English, so I'll thank you to secure that sort of jabber. Then again, I see your whole user profile is that sort of jabber, so perhaps that's asking too much.

One of the most consistent disappointments I've found since setting up these boards is the number of new users we've had, over the years, who have proven unable to take up a comportment fit for discourse. How on Earth is supercilious snideness a viable fallback position when you've annoyed a moderator with what looks, from this end, like a familiarly tiresome pattern of behavior? If it's a false positive on the moderator's part, snarking about nationalities isn't going to help. If not, it's really not going to help.

--G.
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