@Typo-MAGAshiv @lurkerhasarisen I'd like to share a fun story that happened about 2 years ago for context.

2 years ago I went to a different dentist than our usual one to get a lower price on Invisalign for my wife. The guy seemed ok and reasonable and we got a quote for an 18 month treatment plan at $1300 (our cost, and the insurance covered $1300) and started. That dentist left the practice and my wife was assigned a new, but sleazy guy but we continued because we had a treatment plan in place.

About 5 months into treatment, the orthodontist said my wife was done. My wife was confused. Both our family dentist and the other dentist said this was an 18 month plan. He said it's done and we should still pay the full price. I was livid and said over the phone to his office that he should reconsider.

So I researched and went to Blue Cross's website and did a data dump. Blue Cross records showed that the treatment plan was billed badly and for only about $400, repeat, $400 of TOTAL treatment, our share being $200.00.

I smelled a crooked orthodontist.

I went to the original orthodontist who had since moved and he confirmed the treatment wasn't complete. The original dentist charged us a $300 consultation fee to draft up a statement that it wasn't done.

I looked up the dentist's personal and business address and filed in small claims court and got it served to him by the sheriff.

So my wife and I took the day off to go to court and it was like TV. We waited our turn and the judge advised anyone who wanted arbitration to take that offer. In addition, because I had made an (innocent) mistake and hadn't filed the correct form to serve the defendant, the judge was going to extend the trial date for the future and told me the form I'd need to file to continue. So the dentist not only had to take THIS day off, but another one as well. He agreed to arbitration.

I was amused that the dentist acted towards us and the arbiters as if we were in the wrong and delusional, that he had offered to finish my wife's treatment (he hadn't, he just said pay in full) and so on. He even tried to compliment my wife and said he'd give her a "prettier" smile. He told the arbiters that he'd offer us up to $400 in compensation although we had paid $1300 up front for the full plan.

I was surprised that the arbitrator who said he worked at Blue Cross previously didn't understand my legal point that a managed care insurance policy set the rates for what a provider can charge and what a recipient pays (which is the point of such a policy). I hoped the judge would at least understand that if BC/BS says only $200 billable services to us was performed, why should we be on the hook for more than that?

I told the arbitrator that no deal and I, ok, (we), wanted $1300 back, all of it, or else see 'em in court (again) and maybe (again) (who knows, I don't mind taking the day off. I wonder how many patients he didn't get to see that day).

Defense agreed and said they'd send me a check within 30 days. It was written up as a court order.

4 days later I got a check in the mail, with DOUBLE postage (RESPECT!). I was going to frame it so I deposited it electronically.

It bounced.

My wife called him and he said there was a "technical" issue at the bank. At this point, I didn't say it, I had him under a state felony statute of writing a bad check if he didn't honor it but fine, I agreed to redeposit it in a week and it cleared but, sadly, I had to give it to the bank personally. I am framing the envelope though and a printed copy of the check as a trophy for my office.

I am still considering reporting him to the state board because I suspect his business incompetency and dishonesty is hurting other people. I was going to present some of my findings to the court as evidence of his unprofessionalism.

Anyways, I don't mind going through the appeal process at all. It's more fun than going on a dinner date.

I do IT security compliance audits for a living. I fill out forms all day long while working with nice people.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

@Impressive-Cricket-8 @moorekom I'm writing up a kind followup appeal (in case my first appeal isn't addressed in a timely manner) so please don't assume anything about the moderators or alienate them here in case one of them reads this. I hope that there was a moderator who perhaps misinterpreted the Rule 3 policy which applies to sexual harassment, which is clearly what I was NOT doing, and another moderator will kindly see that this was not the case and quietly overturn it but if it gets heated, then they may circle the wagons.

This is, I hope, an opportunity to defend "fair use" and cooperation between reddit and this channel. Whenever moderators here have criticized my posts, I took their criticism with kindness and respected their responsibilities. I am sharing that same sentiment with Reddit.

I have friends from all sides of the political spectrum including gays (that I strangely get along with quite well) and leftist academics and find common ground with them. I remind them that my great-grandfather union organizer would probably punch them out as corporate sellouts. My father drank beer with members of The Panzer Afrika Corp when he was stationed at the 126th artillery in Munich in 1958. I believe that if I respect and listen to someone while holding my ground, I can often come to common grounds with them. Not always, but sometimes.

I am welcoming this interaction with the Reddit moderators as a personal growth opportunity.