I know it's harsh, but that's a spot I'm not inclined to worry much about. Moderating on the Internet can be hard work, and stressful, and is frequently thankl

I know it's harsh, but that's a spot I'm not inclined to worry much about. Moderating on the Internet can be hard work, and stressful, and is frequently thankless, and almost always unpaid. They generally deserve a lot more slack than they get. I see a lot of unreasonable demands placed on moderators, and one of them is expecting unpaid people to sink their spare time into going out of the way to be supportive of presumptuous efforts to drum up free publicity on someone else's dime. Even if the person in question might respond well to being called out, it's unlikely that the moderators would come to see them as a spammer if there wasn't some sort of presumptuous effort to drum up free publicity going on.