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Can't hurt to bank a little goodwillBrown nosing doesn't prevent you from being banned,or moderated.
And it comes with a generous side order of "why was my post deleted, when that other post wasn't?"light moderating such as done here is actually harder than heavy moderating because you have to decide what to let slide rather than hammering everything that goes over the TOS.