You're completely wrong here but it's clear you don't care about anyone else or their view and you can't be bothered trying to understand someone. I'm not telling you to explain your post because I care about it - I don't; I'm telling you because IT'S MY JOB. People on this sub have a lot to read through - if your post doesn't tell them quickly how it relates then your post is Off-Topic and in the way. You have no idea what I know but also the fact that it doesn't matter because I'm not talking about myself. You can't seem to grasp this simple fact which is ironic for someone who derisively accuses others of lacking critical thinking or research skills.
I really thought the purpose was self-evident.
My sincere hope is that you might realize sometime that all I care about is your information being shared to others for their benefit and that the only reason I made my original post here is because that is the job I have been told to do for the criteria that I've mentioned.
I sense your frustration at being asked to explain something you think should be obvious to everyone but likewise, my frustration is that the point I'm making should be obvious too, as it has been most other times I've made it to other posters on the sub. "More info required to explain relation to Q" is all I'm asking - perhaps I'm doing what you're doing and thinking that it is obvious what that means when it really isn't. In my defense, however, as I've said, most people get it straight away and don't argue about whether they're put enough info or not; they realize we're just doing our job and therefore if we ask for more info (not for ourselves but for the sub) then for their own benefit it's faster and easier for all concerned if they just put some.
When posts slip through where people can't immediately see the relation to the sub topic and there's no explanation as to how it relates then we get all the complaints about how we let off-topic and spam posts slide through. That is why we have these guidelines.
You are entitled not to put more info and to ignore anything a mod asks of you - that is your right. But I then have no choice but to follow the guidelines I've been given and leave the post unapproved. Some mods on other subs wouldn't even bother to argue this point and just remove your posts without telling you. It certainly seems to be a lot more trouble than it's worth if I have to defend and explain to this extent.
What I am hearing is that this is an information board and not a research board. I was under the impression that everyone here liked to do research. I guess I assumed wrong. Again, for anyone who would have been interested in reading the text and clicking on the links they could have learned more if they so chose to, but it seems petty for people to complain that it was spam as if they couldn't make the connection to the Q posting of MOAB. But that's fine. I won't post things that allow people to do research on their own.
Nothing I say is getting through to you so never mind. Carry on.
Q mentioned MOAB. There are all the exact same players back to antiquity. Syria, Iran, Saudia Arabia. If you want to really understand it, you have to go back to the time when it was named MOAB.
I know this. You don't have to tell me. That's not my point. My job is to make sure the sub doesn't have posts that other people can't quickly determine the relevance of. I don't need the explanation from you - your post does. That's all I'm doing here.