With utmost respect, you seem not to listen to moderators (this thread is an example).
The MT moderators have said nothing to me. I do adhere what they tell me to do. You set the rules for this thread, and I do not think that any MT member should have that power - on MT Owners and staff. Only an MT Owner or staff member should have the prerogative to dictate to other members any rules, conduct, or Terms of Service.
But to your credit, I understand the intent of your rules. I just don't want to follow them. I will once you become a MT Owner or staff member.
I would expect, that naturally you would interpret my posts and think that I'm attempting to be disrespectful and/or undermine what you're doing here on this thread, but really, with utmost respect and honesty, I am not.
I am only interested in what it legal. If MT Owners or staff grant you the power to dictate rules of participation, then that is their prerogative, but that is my queue to "Exit Left" - with haste. As in "Run Forest, Run!"
Your thread "rules" are already enshrined in MT's existing Terms of Service and other policies. There's no need to repeat them. And there's certainly no need to harangue MT staff repeatedly about posts that you disagree with and quote "Rule 2" or "Rule XYZ" of your posted thread rules. I, and others, don't recognize the legitimacy of those rules. You are absolutely not wrong in what you're attempting to do, but any member dictating rules and behavior is "out of bounds" and not their privilege.
This is a good point to discuss in another thread. We do not have a good method on MT to discuss hot topics. The posts that contradict the rules are treated here as off-topic. This thread is kinda experimental because other threads failed.
Well, forums and social media, there's no way to control content and member behavior other than constant vigilance and moderation. That's not an easy task, and hence my suggestion to use an AI/LMM Bot to be the thread/post/content police.
What you are attempting to do is admirable as a notion, but highly problematic in practice.
Yes, the rules should be accepted by the staff. It would be good to work on an acceptable ruleset. I do not insist on the correctness of the rules in this thread.
There's no easy solution. Be too heavy handed, and people will complain their "Freeze Speach" rights have been violated.
Guess what? Nobody has any "Freeze Speach" rights on MT or most anywhere else for that matter.
Trying to control the zoo animals is a futile enterprise.
I will not comment on this. You can probably get an answer from the staff. For the record, none of your posts were censored in any way, even if the author of the thread thinks that most of what you posted here is off-topic. Only a few posts of some other member were deleted by the staff on my request (and maybe on the request of others).
Truly, I mean nothing by it and not a any criticism or dig directed towards you - but I don't need an answer from staff. I know the statutes and regulations inside-out, frontward and backward.
ANY modification of user posted content AND a pattern of modify or amending any user's posted content (which MT has a well established, trackable history of doing so) is a violation the world over, except in nations such as Angola, China, Syria, Peru, and Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia - and nations of that totalitarian way of governance. Even in pseudo-authoritarian nations such as Turkiye, site owners modifying user posted content is a violation. Now the government has the free will and prerogative to do - essentially - what it wants. Which is true of most nations, including "democracies".
I mean no disrespect and not trying to derail what you're trying to do in this thread.
There is a very important policy and principle that I am addressing. Normally policies and principles are only the prerogative of a site owner or their designated representatives. Individual site members never have the right to tamper or usurp those Owner rights.
Perhaps just stay out of it? Nothing that is being posted should bother you. If it does, then stay off the thread and don't read any of it.
Not a single word of that statement is intended to offend, upset, or otherwise irk you.