Why should I pick apart your straw man? “Come at me, bro, I’ve misrepresented what you said yet again, are you scared to debate me?”
But sure, I needed a break from the problem I’m trying to crack at work, why not…
Where was I saying that you should listen to @Cattibria, or to me, or to anyone else? You and everyone else here is free to pay attention to whatever you want, and disregard whatever you choose.
The OP asked a question on a public forum, and people are offering their opinions. One of those people happens to be a forum moderator. Do you really need an explanation of what forums are for and how they work?
Yeah, as you kindly demonstrated, it will happen even to people who have spent a long time on the forums. But only some of those people will try to make this into an outrage and further proof of Funcom’s wrongdoings.
Did you actually have a constructive point to make here? Like, I don’t know, proposing that @AndyB amend the Introduction to Forums to explain what different borders and badges mean? Or to reconfigure the forum software so that only Funcom employees have posts with borders?
Or are you just complaining because you made an assumption and ran too far with it?
Why, are you volunteering? Because if you aren’t, then you’re just asking to pile additional work for people who already do this for free. At least, that’s what I think “volunteer moderation team” means…