Ok. I am not trying to be antgonistic. I respect the moderators’ right to not approve of certain comments. However, I assumed that there wouldn’t be anything wrong with simply quoting something the Netziv said. When I first attempted to post it about a week and a half ago, I put in my own points after the quote. When that was blocked, I tried again with just the quote, figuring that maybe my words had been problematic but it was blocked again. After a lull in time I tried again – perhaps the moderators would be in a different mood this week – but it was not to be. Then I figured that maybe the quote was problematic because by posting it in the Daas Torah thread, it is portrayed in a certain context. So I put in a new thread and it was allowed through. But then when I posted the link to that thread in this thread, that thread was taken down. My question then was mima nifshach – if my assumption about contexts was correct then why was the other thread taken down, and if my assumption was incorrect then why was the other thread allowed up in the first place? That is what I didn’t understand. (Granted I engaged in a bit of trickery by linking it here, but that could have been taken care of by simply blocking the link.)
So in summation, I respect the moderators’ decision but I am peacefully demonstrating my disagreement with it.
I almost deleted that thread to begin with because I knew which context you meant it in, but allowed it, because it was not directly put into that context. When you linked it in the other thread, I deleted both. Yes, it was trickery on your part, please do not engage in that any more. TIA.