Ok so I wasn't going to go all feedback warrior about this but it's getting ridiculous. I got a pointless post warning for pointing out a mistake in the title of a thread while in that very same thread Phil denied that his post was pointless despite being off-topic entirely and closed the case himself. Phil has also TWICE refused to take action on this post where not only has a one word answer been used but it's also not even a real answer. The fact that he's friends with Cassie has no bearing on this I'm sure.
So yeah let's clarify what a pointless post is: it's one that doesn't add to any discussion according to the current rules. By that definition simply answering a question with no response to anyone elses posts is "pointless" (since there's no discussion taking place), which seems somewhat excessive and certainly isn't being enforced. Is it then, in the case of these question-and-answer threads, one that doesn't respond to the thread title? If so, my post wasn't pointless and Phil's was, and again the rules aren't being enforced properly. Seems that certain people are picking a little from column A and a little from column B and ignoring anything they don't want to act upon, when for a long long time now we've needed a properly written set of forum rules that actually cover what is and isn't allowed rather than this "at the mod's discretion" tactic that doesn't seem to be working - especially when not all mods have the same ideas and some of them are working on their own reports which I'm sure was never allowed before.
With any luck this is just a personal thing that a certain mod has against me (the same chap seems really adamant on spreading disgusting rumours about me despite not knowing me at all and literally being nothing more than a name to me) as I'd hate for it to be the norm across the forum. Either way, the rules need writing properly with the ambiguous "and do not promote active discussion" sorted out once and for all as currently you can get slammed with a mod notice for doing the exact same thing as everyone else in the thread.