A word of thanks, dmckee, for your wonderful contributions to this community. The mention of words "self-respect", and that new, kitten part in your bio, appear to indicate that you have some bad taste in the mouth over something, but I totally understand that you don't wish to elaborate it here in this thread. I shall respect that wish. But I really hope that you return to this site later in the future. Thanks.

Adding to Leonidas' point: Besides, how do you know the actual age of any user on this Stack? Profile only tells you what they claim.

While I understand that very minimal effort would have led the OP to the SE Be-Nice policy, I don't really understand why this is downvoted to hell. We got a user who actually wanted to find out whether the site policy allows name-calling and putting down, before resorting to this. Can't we just make them aware of the policy, and leave it at that? It is a perfectly legitimate question IMO.

PLEASE NOTE: His "bio" links to his Twitter account, on which he was active 15 hours back (from the time of posting this comment). Any one with a Twitter account can perhaps reach out to him. Hoping somebody would volunteer. :)

@Chair - Correct. But such an attempt must precede any drastic measure from the SE team, if there is ever going to be one. :)

Is it implausible for the mods/SE team to contact him, maybe via email, and request him to respond to this post, if at all he is in a position to respond? While site users can debate his continuation/dis-continuation as a moderator, with all the service he has done to the community, if he has to step down, he deserves the privilege of being the one to make that decision.

Source: Last year's thread

"How detailed should answers be"? Strongly resisting the temptation to add a single-word (joke) answer: "Appropriately" !!