naomi - // Other known mods here don’t encounter the criticism you say results from your badge and it reflects badly, and unfairly, on the members here to suggest they do. //
You appear to have nominated yourself as resident arbiter of comments made about Moderators in general, and myself in particular.
In order to clear up any misunderstanding for you, and the extremely small number of others who may be interested -
I am perfectly willing to accept the criticism I receive from whomever for whatever reason - when you post as often and as much as I do, then that criticism is exponentially increased.
If the criticism is of me as a Moderator, or of me as an AB'er, I respond accordingly and individually.
I do not lump all criticism of me as a Moderator with everyone who posts - as I say, a seriously small number even care at all - so your assumption that I do is entirely of your own imagination.
Is the criticism I receive of my own making? Of course it is! Everyone's is, including yours - but for some unknown reason you have a Pavlovian response to point out that I am in some way complaining about my lot, which if course, I am not.
For you, and the three people who actually care if I get criticised or not or what my responses are, or you think they should be, let me be clear that I couldn't care less, and maybe you should care a lot less as well.
That will stop your knee jerk need to leap onto any thread concerning criticism of me, with your tut tutting standard response. Anyone who cares has already read it several times, maybe it's time to just let it go now.