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@Randal'Thor comments on chat cannot be deleted, so my supposition is out there. The user has been demodded and suspended, so something was fishy and the user is paying the price. I may sympathise that they may be feeling distressed, but to demod a newly elected moderator is pretty serious. After all, it clearly says the user was suspended for voting irregularities on their account page.

"If this was all right and as per SE rules, they probably wouldn't feel the guilt." Actually, that's completely untrue, but that aside, if it really was against the multiple account rules, then they definitely should have their moderatorship removed (I respect that you're not interested in pursuing that, but that's objectively what should happen). If there really was fraud, then both the policy should be upheld, that they are removed, and the truth should be available.

Regular community members answer English questions. Moderators make judgement calls about what to do when someone is rude, or a newbie is having trouble asking well-received questions. They don't teach that stuff in University;)

An English teacher decides to quit. He says: Headmaster, I quit. I'm a terrible, terrible English teacher. I don't do simple. I'm not in the least being progressive. And, frankly, I have never been perfect.

@AIQ The most important quality of an SE moderator is that they care about the community they're moderating, and I think you have that covered :)

pnas.org/content/106/25/10130 (REM, not incubation, improves creativity by priming associative networks)

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Word of the day: devil-may-care

Word of the day: van (wing)

Word of the day: inutile - Useless; pointless.

nonstandard contraction of the day: I'd've

@snailplane Just for you! sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/jeremy-leftysnail-1-foot-under

So, I came across another interesting word while I was looking for an interesting name for a ship in a video game: redamancy : act of loving in return Despite his lack of redamancy, her passion for him was unabated for several years. It's a "lost" word from 1656, so only use it if you want to test whether someone will ask a question if they don't understand something ;)

Words of the day: neoplasm and pleonasm

My coworker coined a phrase today "there's no need to make a meeting out of it". It means the same thing as make a production out of but it's funny because we've been stuck in a lot of of pointless meetings lately.

I just found a cool word - cryptochrome. It came up as a search suggestion when I typoed cryptocurrency.

Word of the day: bailiwick

Incidentally I've always wanted to respond with "Are you calling me fat?" after a waiter says "Sorry for your wait."

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Word of the day: to run into the sand

Word of the day: littermates

Word of the day: loosestrife

Here’s a word I haven’t seen used in a long time: rapacious. What is voluntary is not rapacious from a tweet by John Stossel

Is it weird that I prefer to do my research work in a corner of library instead of my personal office? For some reason, I feel very calm and happy in libraries.

Word of the day: knockout

word of the day: Binge Watching

Word of the day: Pooh-pooh

Idiom of the day “every jot and tittle” from a transcript of an interview with US AG Barr. “My purpose there was not to summarize every jot and tittle of the report...”

Phrase of the night: put out feelers

Since time immemorial, philosophers have pondered, Why do good people answer bad questions?

Word of the night: Moot

Phrasal verb of the night: get around to

Phrasal verb of night: come down with