I don't know if a link to you saying the thing you are saying again is as convincing as you would hope. Now, obviously I'm just being obnoxious, but to respond to your question: It's curmudgeonly because you are pasting rules verbatim without engaging. Your second message here is a model of a positive interaction, treating participants as people first and rule violators to be managed second.

I appreciate what you do as a moderator, and thank you, genuinely, for doing it. As someone who has been here a long time and posted hundreds of long, very thoughtful and what I try to make be well supported or well reasoned posts, it's slightly irritating to just get rules pasted at me.