In response to your final sentence. I believe that jdporter is a decent guy, and that you are not a "shit". I've not followed the threads in question, sorry, I don't have time right now, I've not been as active here recently (or anywhere other than work/home life) due to time constraints. However I have been around here for some years, and have communicated with both of you about various things over the years. People can be difficult, interactions which aren't face to face are less straight forward than those which are and volunteers have a limited time to spend doing things. The last point, from personal experience, is a though one. As someone who does much of the grunt work for a voluntary run organisation I often don't have the time to make everything perfect or address every issue with the same level of focus. Perhaps the same rings true for the gods/admins of this site.

Are you really claiming that your intervention ...

Ok, I misunderstood what you mean by "intervention". Apparently simply posting a comment containing a link to a site faq, without further commentary, is "intervention".

had nothing to do with either the fact that I was the OP;

Actually it did. I'm sure it seems like I was picking on you; but the fact is that I don't have time to read posts by every random monk that comes along, but will take the time to read posts by the likes of you, since you tend to post good stuff, content-wise. This being a perfect example; the content of your post was really, really cool. I probably would have taken a stab and answering it except that other folks already had.

nor that you, as a god here, have access to privileged information?

Absolutely not, no. No privileged information was wanted, nor needed, nor used, at least by me, throughout this whole kerfuffle. I would have responded exactly as I did even if I were still only in the SiteDocClan and/or pmdev. In fact, if anything, I was acting in accordance with my long history in SDC. Pointing people to relevant faqs is something I do, sometimes. Even so, it's something any monk could do. Even Anonymous Monk can do such things, and has, from time to time. No special information is necessary.

I firmly believe you sought to use your 'weight', as a god here, to 'put me in my place'.

Believe whatever you must. It's completely untrue. I have no desire to put anyone in their place. That's not how I roll. I'm a big believer in letting people dig their own reputational graves. (And if that's what I've done to myself here, then, hey. I guess I'll have to live with it.)