You are an administrator on the forum?
Perhaps then heeding your own advice? Wading into a discourse between the poster and the forum admins and chiding the poster in such manner (insinuating poster frustration and wording "kicking people against their shins”) seems to veer in that direction.
Not that it explains of how you mark the poll as something passive-aggressive or even derive a frustration from it.
Never said/implied that I condone or defend the user’s actions, au contraire
Again you are insinuating something.