Dear David, I write to you with some concerns regarding friction I have experienced on the site with another user and because I highly respect the seeming principled integrity with which you conduct yourself.

@JosephP. I am sorry that you have experienced friction. However I am not s mod on law.se. What would you like from me?

Sorry I wasn't able to follow this up with a continuation.

My first message was totally incomplete.

Yes I too am generally opposed to moving things to chat. I was basically just trying to find a way to communicate with you that would have the least likelihood of drawing the attention of my rival. However the discussion was hardly relevant to the US constitutional question.

Here is in any case the continuation of my original message: dpaste.org/sYioG

However unfortunately I had mistakenly the impression that you are a moderator perhaps due to your remarkably high ranking reputation score, which I must have assumed automatically makes one a moderator once above a certain threshold. But then how does one become a moderator?

@JosephP. First of all, when a single comment or chat msg is not replird to right away, posting multiple cmts to alert the intended recipient is unneeded, unhelpful, and feels to me like harassment. Please do not do this again. Secondly, posting multiple meaningless cmts to try to force s chtroom is also unhelpful. Please Don't. I hsve flsgged thod msgs as not needed

@JosephP. When the community managers (SE employees) think a SE site could use more mods, they can schedule a moderator election. People volunteer to run. users vote. Those nwho are elected become mods. See ell.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5757/… for a recent election whewre I became a mod on ELL

@JosephP. I have read your statement at dpaste.org/sYioG Iam tempted 6to call it a rant. I am not going to try to go thgrolugh all your recent interactions with Trish and asses them. But it seems to me that you have been farther over the line than she has. She has seemed to me to be touchy in the past, yes. But "Have you read X" and "have you considered posting a cite" are pretty direct CoC violations.

@JosephP. ... If this had occur-ed over on ELL I would probably be discussing with other mods whether a suspension was justified. My advice: Back off! Be extra polite in any response toi trish. If you think an answer needs a supporting cite say something liker 'Would you please add a cite to support this answer". Don't use terms such as "cowardly" or even "low-quality post" Don't repeat your points. If she is unfriedly, point that out without responding in kind.

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Oh I see... Part of the problem is perhaps that as with thread comments, messages here need to be within a certain threshold of length.

Apologies, however my aim in sending multiple successive messages was not to get your attention any sooner than you might otherwise see a lone single one, but rather as mentioned to trigger the site to offer me an option to move the conversation to chat.

Like you I also don't generally like doing that when the conversation subject is related to the page where the comment thread is, but I had found that page by looking for your recent contributions on your profile after having difficulties for unknown reasons in sending you a second chat message in the chat room that I'd manage to create for the purpose of communicating more directly and perhaps slightly more discretely with you.

Now I seem to be able to post additional messages into the chat for some reason.

I somewhat lament your flagging my comments at this point because I don't see what it would accomplish other than to signify some opprobrium and disapproval of

me for seeking your support in my friction with Trish.

I would gladly delete them myself and would have done so by now if not for a bug in the SE engine which prevents me from deleting comments using the mobile site.

It is hardly a common scenario in which I have a need to discretely communicate with you and create a chat for doing so and then have a technical issue with the initial attempt so there would seem no lesson to teach me either, and the only real effect would be to draw the attention of the moderators including my rival to our communication which was intended to initially be more discrete.

Anyway, one of my main points to you is to ask what recourse I have if I feel that mods (including my bully) are being unfair and unreasonable in exercising their powers.

I'm on low battery and will respond to your feedback when better charged, but will just say now that I appreciate your suggestions.