But Max, it goes well beyond that. I started a thread yesterday to announce that I had reactivated another board that I once started. In my announcement, I did not offer any reasons or refer, even obliquely, to Eratosphere or its moderators. I did not even encourage people to visit my board. It was just one bland, boring sentence making a simple factual statement that could have offended no one. But the thread was promptly removed without any notice to me or explanation. In fact, someone alerted me to the fact that the thread had been deleted or I might not have noticed it myself.
It's kind of scary that moderator powers are being used in this manner. Apart from the injustice of deleting my innocuous and entirely appropriate thread, it creeps me out to wonder how many other threads or posts have been silently made to disappear in this fashion. Even as I type this now, though I am not singling out any particular person or using inappropriate or offensive language, I feel there is at least a fifty-fifty chance that this post will be either disappeared or edited out from under me, and I certainly have no confidence that I will manage to see all the responses before they, too, are silently made to go bye-bye.
I will copy the thread as soon as I post just so there will be a record to circulate in case this disappears, leaving in place only Max's defense of the moderators and creating the false impression that no one disagreed with Max.
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