karenmansker wants a quantum of respect

Actually, it is not.

In your post, you literally invited the moderators to act on that post:

The moderators are well within their rights to act:

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So I fail to understand how you feel this places this site at "great legal risk".

I can assure you, his moving your posts and others, by the way, was well within his realm of responsibility, not to mention you literally invited the moderators to "move this post elsewhere". So your threat of legal action just kind of went out the window there.

You invited him to move that post.

Usually when posts like this are moved, they are moved into a new thread. That is the usual course of action in these circumstances. Not only did you give permission, but the rules and operation of this site allows us to move posts into new threads if they are off topic or pseudoscience in the science sub-forums.

Your comments about libel are unfounded.

There was no libel. Again from our site's rules:

Defamation
I9. Posts tending to defame a person (i.e. to affect his or her good reputation) are, in general, unacceptable. However, a person is not defamed when his or her own published opinions are used to draw reasonable, supported conclusions. Nor is he defamed if he is not in some way identifiable. True information about a person is not defamatory.
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Mod Note

Since Karen appears to be rescinding her specific invitation to move her post elsewhere, which is exactly what staff did, this thread is now closed for the time being.

Karen, I would strongly advise you to review your manner of posting on this site.