What does tl;dr mean?

What does that mean: tl;dr? Just wondering...

First in first served sucka.

It means too long; didn't read. :D

Here you go, I shortened the post for you:

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Moderators, this thread and Vanilla's post remind me that I want to raise a concern with all of you, which is that some of the rules are not enforced consistently or even followed consistently by moderators themselves, such as our site's first rule:

• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks, trolling, purposeless inflammatory posts or members deliberately provoking another member into committing any of these acts.

It often seems to me that the main job of moderators here is to delete posts that contain advertisements, and I can imagine that is a big job. I see the clean-up in action and do appreciate it. Using MusicBanter to banter about music in a substantive way would be much harder if the posts of people who join only to advertise or promote weren't cleaned up. So, thank you, Mods, for that.

Yet I feel the occasional nasty comments by moderators and some members are much more harmful to the community than "spam" is. When I see moderators are breaking one rule while telling people to follow another, I no longer trust any of the moderators because I don't trust them to police each other or themselves.

For example, Vanilla, I wish you wouldn't tell midnight-spree that he can **** off. If you really *are* drunk when you are posting, then I think it would be better if you wait until you aren't, because I feel you are violating the first rule of MusicBanter by being intentionally rude and hurtful: "We will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks, trolling, purposeless inflammatory posts."

Midnight_spree's feedback is actually a good thing because it shows she or he has hope that the concern will be listened to and that the moderators will be fair and decent.

I'm going to respond here to the request that moderators send PMs about deleted threads.

I'm not going to do this, simply because I don't have the time to PM as many people in a day as that would require, and I also don't have the time or energy to argue with every single one of them about whether or not they should be allowed to post their link, which ultimately will result in them leaving, or behaving in a bannable manner anyways.

Bah! Curse your hide to Hades, Rjinn, or Rjinnx, or whatever damnable interweb nomenclature you're using! I spent seconds on that reply, and you beat me to it by two minutes! Do you know who I am?? I have the highest-paid lawyers and this whole contempible town in my pocket! We'll see who eats whose shorts.... what do you MEAN, Smithers, this intercom is ON?? You mean they all heard me... ahhh, haaa, now let's not be hasty, people... it was all Smithers' fault! Sorry but there's only room for one person in my personal escape pod! Well, yes, technically there are two seats, but I like to put my feet up! Toodles! :wave: (why isn't there an emote-icon for a shaking fist? Happy face indeed! We'll just see about that...)

lulz

:D

Seconds that could have been used to make and invest more $$$$$$$!!!

The intercom is on? Ahoy-hoy!

(sigh) Yes I am fabulously wealthy. But you know, I'd give it all up for just a little more....