Yes, it's pathetic.

Please do borrow my statement, and repost every time they gray your posts out. It really irritates them, and ties them up their time, and uses up their downvoting power so they have to wait and recharge. Please edit the old post by putting "." on the subject line of the old post, and "." also in the body of the old post, and then "nothing" for the tag, so they can't charge you with "spamming" because, there is still ever only one copy of your post on the blockchain.

Good luck and God bless.