At this time, there is a noticeable amount of “mini-modding”, the act of impersonation of moderation staff/people with the actual appropriate power to handle the issue, or otherwise giving such impression to any reasonable onlooker, exists throughout the DevForums and realistically should be minimised or removed completely.
To be clear, you should be able to reasonably and privately tell a user that they may be violating the rules and you should point to them; but you cannot publicly just tell them and act as if you have any actual power above any other user.
For me, that is using the flagging system (that’s what it’s designed for) and let the people with actual power do the work. That is not your job and you should not spend your time and effort to do so, I do not believe that would lead to promotion and if was the case I would strongly recommend the removal of such criteria.
The issue is that people point to things but are wrong about it, because they are not the people who deal with this kind of thing. For example, pointing to the Roblox Terms of Use as a reason not to do investment posts when it is purely a DevForum rule. Or inadvertently violating the rules themselves by repeating that they have violated the rules, even though they are creating spam; to quote the summary of the DevForum rules, which say
Every reply must be meaningful, contributive, and on-topic. Do not re-post what others have already said
This is mainly an issue in places like #collaboration:recruitment, which the about post says
How should I reply to recruitment topics?
Please do not start lengthy discussions in this category. You should only reply to topics when you are interested in the opportunity being offered. If you want to have longer conversations or discussions with the poster of the topic, please do it through private messages.
so violating twiceward, not really the best outlook in that regard.
Random side note: No, Top Contributors are not forum staff, they are not exempt, they just do better posts than others. The “I know what I’m talking about” stick, even if that’s wrong.
TL: DR: Mini modding is an issue and should be minimised, these people are actually violating the rules themselves but this should be more clear. Don’t publicly reply, use the flag system.