We did talk privately about this. I did edit many of his posts.
It's not my job but if you would like to make it a job for me and pay me a salary I would love to talk to you about it.
And yes, many people get upset with HCP over how he treats new members. And I have talked to him many times privately about it. I have edited many of those posts.
I visit reddit, I have visited Clutchfans, and while not perfect our mods do a better job of moderating this forum then any forum I've seen. It will never be perfect but I don't think anyone is asking for perfection.
If you want to see what this forum would be like without the personal insult rule go read Clutchfans. The crap they said to and about Kingspeed is ridiculous. For the last two days we've had a Clutchfan member posting in our forum. I have yet to see one personal insult directed at him. That's actually pretty cool.