There are many good and valid reasons why we need moderators and for them I am thankful. However should we not consider the reason we do respond humanly to the hurts we feel??
Pro 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Sometimes it is beneficial to have our private understanding placed under the light of examination by our friends who write in blunt terms.
Blunt is not bad, it just saves a lot of writing and needs to have other writing between the lines which writing "the reader" must supply.
I know of my own experience that I would not seriously consider another persons view point if I was not motivated by curiosity or by a little pique of my ego. I often begin a helpful study of scripture when a forum "friend" dares to question what I have stated. Kat is my personal favorite
Perhaps we become just a little too sensitive of loving admonition when we have come to believe that our sincere thoughts are based upon a leading from God through Lord Jesus. Most if not all are being led to participate on this forum, but God teaches in TINY steps the sons He loves and this approach of God to our learning encourages the development of patience through "long suffering".
The thing to remember is that Lord Jesus leads our thinking very gradually, allowing us time to catch up and to notice that some of the best improvements in our understanding comes "only" with prayer and fasting.
So we need to be especially careful to not lean toward our own understanding, but to examine ourselves against scripture. Even though we have reason to think that we are called to be able to see some of the secret things (musterion) of God that have been hidden from all others in ages past and from most even today.
No correction is welcome at first, but will lead to growth in grace and knowledge, which thing we all need and seek after.
Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Kindly offered, Indiana Bob