Yes, of course.
I made a general comment - plural “you” - about the pettiness of reporting my post because, obviously, I don’t know who reported it. If that poster wants to put their hand up and explain themselves we can (civilly) discuss why insulting descriptions are apparently acceptable against the very few who post criticism of the government on this thread, but it’s not OK to reply in kind about any government supporters.
As for “us” (which a different poster raised), it’s pretty clear it means ‘anyone reading this thread who is not part of the regular group who post’.
One of the posters on this thread tagged me a few times into criticism of me on a different thread set up to moan about pro-government posters. I hadn’t posted on that thread (I thought the thread was Reformy and pathetic). She apologised to me. I said it was all fine and there was no need for apologies. She thanked me.
That, IMO, is how debate should be conducted.
As for Zonder’s comment, I didn’t breach any guidelines; nothing’s “on me”. MNHQ will delete posts more or less on request, as far as I can see. I once saw loads of posts deleted from a woo thread because the poster had said there’s no such thing as ghosts.
I’ve never reported a post, not even on the appalling anti-vaccination thread that’s currently running. Disinformation that encourages exposing children to harm seems to me about the most delete-worthy stuff of all. But MN tolerates it. 🤷♀️