It could have as well been if The Everything Is Off-Topic Thread was not meant to have fun loosening the policy a bit. 
But as usual there is a continual improvement and reinterptetation of everybody's approach to such an extent that sometimes the results prove to be too much far away than the original ones that could be hardly called improvement anymore. 
As long is not fun for fun's sake mods are not there to waste the fun. 
BTW when you are with your friends how many jokes you tell to laugh at them and not with them?
Did you know, Josh describes you as followed: "the technical guy, who writes a lot...." others consider you as very intelligent and you like to discuss stuff a lot.... You like to have the last word..... and you enjoy studying biological lifeforms...

I am wondering, are all those people in Sweden like that? or do they become like that, when becoming a mod....

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No offense, I really like Sweden, beautiful country with superb nature! a lot of trees and water... and an outstanding health care system! an example for the world!
also nothing against you, but I think you are maybe sometimes too strict......
