this isn't a throwaway. Just because it has throwaway in the name doesn't mean it's a throwaway. I post on it all the time, check my history, ya goof.
Most people I've interacted with here is very understanding and polite once I've made my case, but you really touched off and that just made it a little too tempting to mess around.
We want to get things in line, and for players to have a little more than four weeks on the game before we start making huge changes. We'll buff things it turns out our line of reasoning doesn't work.