"factual" questions can have borderline cases, though. and in borderline cases it has to depend on SOMETHING, and I'd rather that something be "you made a good argument for it" than some other arbitrary factor. and even if the mods aren't canonblind, they've probably thought less about the character in question than the player. I can imagine a lot of minor characters from canons I love that I'd be *dubious* about having enough canon if I were a mod, but willing to consider the possibility that someone else could extrapolate more from canon than I immediately think of.

all that said, yeah, the fact that I'm rephrasing what I think they meant means the mods weren't maximally transparent, but 1) we've been over "mods aren't paid for customer service work" wank before, and 2) given the very brief and casual tone, I suspect OP is paraphrasing at least a little, and are perhaps also not being maximally charitable, given their understandable irritation with the situation