Your moderator (read: me, but tired beyond reason) was operating on exactly 2 hours of rest. What I should have typed is "Please use Rude or Abusive for this. If you have any questions ask on meta."

Point not withstanding, such rants are valid use cases, in my opinion, for "Rude or Abusive" on the grounds that it doesn't warrant respectful discourse. I personally don't believe that 'ranting' falls within the "Be Nice" rule as rants target things with rudeness, and ultimately are intended to just complain in a non-nice way about things.

Which is why I said you may wish to use that flag. However, when one of us operates on two hours of sleep, we often don't reply to flags properly.

(My other opinion: rants don't fall within the category of 'respectful discourse' either, whether it's using foul language, etc. or not.)

Your moderator (read: me, but tired beyond reason) was operating on exactly 2 hours of rest. What I should have typed is "Please use Rude or Abusive for this. If you have any questions ask on meta." Lack of sleep was a factor here, oops, for that message.

That not withstanding, though, I believe that such rants are valid use cases, in my opinion, for "Rude or Abusive" on the grounds that it doesn't warrant respectful discourse. I personally don't believe that 'ranting' falls within the "Be Nice" rule as rants target things with rudeness, and ultimately are intended to just complain in a non-nice way about things. Consider that "inappropriate for respectful discourse" is actually part of the flag reason:

Which is why I said you may wish to use that flag. However, when one of us operates on two hours of sleep, we often don't reply to flags properly.

(My other opinion: rants don't fall within the category of 'respectful discourse' either, whether it's using foul language, etc. or not.)