Oh yes, I was just working out why I hadn't seen it at the time, as it would have caught my attention, not least because I was reading an awful lot of Sherlock at the time!

And wow, yes, I'm surprised nobody had mentioned it if it had been up for months, and that's quite an obviously inappropriate term for someone like that to use. Though it can be difficult to say so because authors don't always respond well to negative comments, of course. I have difficulty handling confrontation to the point that I get panic attacks in RL around raised voices (even if the anger isn't directed at me) so I think I'll work out something calmly phrased in advance that I can cut and paste to the end of my comments on fics when I see these words in future.