I'm so done.

So Derpibooru. Good website, subpar moderators at best.

There was an image there that got uploaded four times by the same person (and then a fifth time due to it getting updated). The person was confused and uploaded it once per source, which isn't allowed. Cue a number of comments on all four images about how much it was uploaded, including one from me pointing out what happened. Since there's a rule about discussing metadata on images (image comments should be about images), these comments were removed once the images were merged.

Cue someone else making the false (but reasonable) assumption that the images were uploaded by different people (something that happens all the time, particularly with popular artists). I corrected them, only to get my comment deleted for that same metadata rule. Makes sense. I mean, we're not allowed to discuss metadata, right?

Here's what confused me.

The person that made that assumption? Their comment is still there. Why?

I decided not to pursue it on the image (due to the same rule that got my comment deleted), so I went to the forums and described it similarly to how I did above.

The first response was a sentence that explains what happens when images are merged, which was on the topic of the rule but not what I asked. The second explained why the metadata rule was in place, which is again on topic but not what I asked.

I gave a response trying to further explain what was confusing me while making it clear that I was fine with the removal of my comment. Cue them giving a response that made it sound like I wanted my comment put back up and scolding me for wanting that.

What?

While they did say it slipped through the cracks, they made it sound like the point of the thread was to get my comments put back in place. No, it wasn't. They acted like I was actively complaining about how they handled things. No, I wasn't. They got on me for "trying to be right." I don't care about that.

I can accept that my comment was off-topic and got deleted for it. I can accept that one off-topic comment slipped through the cracks. Heck, I can accept that the moderators left it there after it was pointed out to them. I can not accept being accused of wanting something I never said I wanted.

I don't usually vent about things, but this is something that's just clinging to my mind and actively upsetting me. I'm worried that, if I don't vent about it, it'll cause me to have trouble writing the rest of my story or, worse, cause me to damage something IRL. I don't care if anyone agrees with me or not. I just need to get this off my chest.

Edit: And it just got worse. Someone else tried to comment, and the same mod kept dancing around the issue pointlessly. They finally accused me of trying to throw shade (I wasn't. I was trying to inform someone about something they seemed to be confused about) before finally saying that they left the comment there to de-escalate the situation.

That's all I needed to read. All they needed to post was, "We have a reason to leave it there," and I would have been fine. They didn't need to dance around the issue as much as they did. They had a good answer. I would have accepted it. I cannot accept them feeling like they need to personally attack me over a misunderstanding.

Why do I always have some idiodic issue with authority figures like this?