An R is a recommended reading, but when the person is bashing another moderator you wonder why? Why should the bashing be rated an R? Does the R rating incite the basher to bash more? Apparently so.
Moderators have a right to rate any post they see fit. I have seen some posts get high ratings when they were nothing more than one sentence? Why? The moderator has right.
But in an open support forum where a brand new poster shows up promoting a business and linking to that business over and over again, it causes me and others to pause.
While many will not say anything, hundreds are still asking theirself why?