An appeal for moderation

[Nystul]

All of this, though, is pretty far afield.  My original intent was never to suggest that we *abandon* standards.  Simply that we use them in moderation.  Moderation both in what we remark upon (i.e., since "your" and "you're" can usually be distinguished by context, is it really necessary to post just to point out an error in this usage?) and on how we remark upon it.  What prompted me to post in the first place were some humorless nits about form in the WoW fora.  The points being nitted were no worse than many of the blunders I've made and gotten away with.

So, perhaps in my first post, I should have simply asked that everyone give the 'unknowns' the same slack that they give their established friends.  And that if a correction is felt to be necessary, it be proffered with the same respect to an 'unknown' as it is to an 'established' poster.
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I couldn't agree more.

This direction this thread has taken is pretty ironic. There is a lot of moderating and not much moderation. I think the tone of the thread lends more support to your original point than the content of the posts possibly could.