I have no doubt that you can put any kind of spin on an argument and would even argue your own post is off topic if it suited your agenda.

I have joined the conversation to enable you to articulate your interpretation on when I can bump my own thread and under what circumstances, so my comment has relevance.  If you want to continue to delete posts without articulating yourself, then we will never know what your attitudes towards each case is.  As you yourself stated, each moderator will interpret a post differently, so clearly your "guidelines" aren't being adhered to by your fellow moderators, hence the continued confusion as to what you desire.