We are all people, not mice

Very occasionally, these days, my spirit drained, I will post, but I find my post 'is awaiting moderator approval', like it's my first post I've ever composed. I've actually posted 853 times, and received 1,985 likes, so it seems a reasonable thought that I've got a good enough track record to be trusted as much as anyone else. Unless someone is being as biased as I feared. This all seems really petty. Is every post I bother to post from now on going to be quarantined like this?

Let's take a look to see if you have a rap sheet here. Hmmm, yes, you do.

Publicly Calling Out A Moderator [50 pts/1 month] Jun 30, 2017 50 Jul 30, 2017
Publicly Calling Out A Moderator [50 pts/1 month] Jun 30, 2017 50 Jul 30, 2017
Inappropriate Content [20 pts/1 month] Apr 29, 2017 20 Apr 29, 2017
Inappropriate Content [20 pts/1 month] Mar 16, 2016 20 Apr 16, 2016

Looks like you've been testy and the system kicked you in to moderation. If you want to get out, contact a moderator.

I wouldn't say 'testy'. I'd point out that one moderator behaved in a way that was knowingly provocative with unexplained actions. Sad that it happens.

One of your previous posts was "you sound like a castrated field mouse." So we have to explain to you why this is against the rules?

That statement may be against forum rules but, I just laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair.

I wasn't aware that we actually had rap sheets here.

Would it be against the rules to request a copy of my current file? Thanks.

You have to give the mods credit. Someone posts something like that and they still allow them to post here is remarkable. Any other forum would have booted them out permanently for that. "Castrated field mouse".

I don't know. Points lost for the comment of course, but I would give at least one back for the imagery.

It's a funny insult, but it's also not funny. Unfortunately, discussing how funny it is gives the guy who wrote it is the same as giving approval for it. Gotta admit, though, the author of that comment has some cojones. It's just not in my DNA to to something like that. I might be thinking it, but I wouldn't do it.

Well, it's certainly imaginative! Not so much if you were on the receiving end of it, though. :sigh:

Make you wonder what kind of noise a castrated field mouse gives.

So would it have been okay to say "you sound like a field mouse"? Was it the castration that put it over the top? :laugh:

"Little Bunny Foo-Foo hopping' through the forest
Scooping up the field mice and chopping off their..."