Cobaltdream,
Point well taken. However, Jim chose the worst possible time to pull off his joke (I thought it was funny also), meaning that this thread is still pretty hot and he called a lot of attention to his thumbnail at the same time. Basically, the moderators probably thought he was "calling them out".

Now if he had waited until much of this died down, or at least until this thread got off the front page, he might even have snuck it through. Even if he didn't, it would have been a private matter between himself and the moderators, and could have been resolved much more gracefully.

"Get forced" was a poor choice of wording on my part.