I personally do not think that the neutral tag is worth it. I read your post in his self moderated thread, it was very much on topic and doesn't deserve to be deleted. My own post was also deleted by him but I took it in a good fate.
If you are going to post in a self moderated thread, be willing to accept harsh moderation
Harsh moderation from a poster that is not reputed. But good moderation from a reputed poster. I think that is how it could be. If such topic was posted by a newbie, I would not have posted if it is self-moderated. Many of us might not have posted. Also the neutral tag is harmless. Just a warning to let people know that their post could likely be deleted. I wanted not to give the neutral tag but almost all posts are getting deleted. I will remove the neutral tag after a week when everyone would have seen it.
Exactly. If a legendary member and who is well known, well behaved and good discussion habit create a self moderated thread, then reputable members will also make comments either against and support. Because when you create a thread, it to s not expected that everyone will only talk the good side of the starter but also his or her fault. And I don't think it is good to delete comments because the comment doesn't aligned with the Op. Then when will that Op learn and know his fault? Nobody is always right. And when an Op deletes thread from a self moderated thread
because of unfavorable comments then that is bad. Op in those threads should only delete out of point comments and comments that doesn't follow the thread discussion and not comments that inline with discussion of the thread and if he does that then the thread became bias and it is bad for the forum.