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Originally Posted by felix
Well, that's pretty much what I understood it as when xris mentioned it. Basically no complaining about how people should write posts in discussion threads. Oh, its okey to talk about that here (somewhat) since that's part of the topic, but don't go overboard.
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Something like that. Meta posting is when people try to act like a moderator by telling other users how to post or follow the rules. Stuff like "don't talk about rep" or "everyone please stay on topic". The irony in meta posting is that those who do so are participating in the same problems they are trying to stop.
As you say, small amounts of meta posting are fine (you see people linking rules in their signature for example) and expected even but when people get a big head over it they just make the problem worse. They aren't an authority figure and they only invite flames because of that (You're not the boss of me!). If they had simply contacted an actual moderator when they saw the problem and let the mod deal with it things would have been easier to resolve. Instead they just make the mods job twice as hard because now there's two messes to clean up instead of one.