First off I want to note some great things:

I presume this moderator could just ban me. They haven't. They haven't done anything at all besides issue verbal warnings. They seem to be bending over backward - along with devoting a lot of their own time - to try and avoid things escalating. So big props to them on that. That's awesome modding.

But it appears we are rapidly heading toward escalations and I'd like to avoid that.

At this point the