@DavidStratton Is this the first hammer strike?

Did it shoot lightening like Thor's?

@fredsbend I'm not sure if it's appropriate for me to answer what actions I've taken, so I'll refrain from answerable that one. clearly it was a hammer strike.

@fredsbend The main effect of the hammer so far is that, unexpectedly, I'm feeling indecisive all of a sudden. The other effect of the hammer is a loss of sleep over second-guessing myself. No lie... it actually made me lose sleep last night.

I had one hammer strike that bugged me, and I kept mulling it over all night, and it led me to rush down to my PC first thing when I woke up and undo a VTC, and instead edit the question to bring it on-topic. Which is probably more constructive when dealing with a newcomer.

@DavidStratton since it is publicly visible, it should be fine to indicate it if it was your first, just if it wasn't and the action that was isn't publicly visible you couldn't say what it was

the guide rule is that in almost all cases if a non diamond user with sufficient rep can see it, it is ok to disclose, if it is not (and isn't only impacting you) then it isn't

@DavidStratton hehe, welcome to being a mod

now you know our conundrum

don't worry too much though, the community elected you because they trust you and think you were doing a great job

(and if you aren't sure on something, there's lots of other mods around, both on C.SE and SE as a whole, that can offer you advice)

@DavidStratton Funny. For vtc's I fully trust you, personally. Edits of your's I've seen have been great too. One, though, recently, made me wonder what you were doing. One of Robert's answers, now deleted. It was about Protestant prayers services at the time, but Anonymous changed it to be about Lutheran Prayer vigils or something.

He answer was certainly junk, and I tried quite a bit to help him, but he is just obstinate.

However, your edit you made to his post I think overstepped. If I'm remembering right, it significantly changed the meaning of it, though there wasn't much there to change in the first place.

After he rolled back, I edited to fix the grammar and spelling, which he consistently has issues with, and he rolled that back too!

I'm not asking for an explanation, but I just wanted to point it out because you mentioned editing. One caveat of editing a post from a new user is that it doesn't really help them understand the site better. I've had some of my posts edited so significantly and often on Skeptics that it was forced into a wiki post. In hindsight, it left me wondering what was going on, instead of helping me use the site better.

So when I edit questions from new users, I try not to take it too far.

In the end though, we're all going to see your edits anyway, and you do a great job almost all the time, so just do what you've always done.

On Robert, I was having quite a lengthy exchange in the comments on several posts, so I preserved it in chat and encouraged him to take to me there. I knew I might need it.

I think this makes my third time trying to help him, but there is no change. The grammar edit/revert thing really pissed me off. From now on he'll just get a comment and a dv if the grammar is informal.

@fredsbend - You're right, that edit was not what I'd normally do. I don't want to give too much away here, but essentially it was an experiment and I saw your conversation with him. I learned what I set out to learn from the reaction to the edit and your chat and have been intentionally quiet for now. I'm in silent observation mode.