1. This particular topic here no longer has anyone discussing "PM to/from moderators"

And who motivated that? 🙄

In the last post of the PM to/from moderators thread we have a mod (Mod1) complaining that:

This particular topic here no longer has anyone discussing "PM to/from moderators", and has just become a conversation about locked topics.

This was the last post related to the topic "PM to/from moderators:"

Except the fact that Team members might PM us anyway, which I understand. A few days ago I did not receive a PM sent by a moderator. You can see her message. This forum most likely has a black hole or limbo.

However, and not suprisingly, it was precisely another mod (Mod2) who initially went off-topic 😐

This unknown mod not only decided to shred to pieces another thread (i.e. "Are you...") and to start creating new threads (e.g. the now locked and closed L&L one), but also to add some of the remaining posts to other non-related threads (what happened here).

What does the following have anything to do with the topic of the thread? 😕

Re: Are you...
Post by Basler Biker » 25.01.24, Fri, 04:01:34

daKanga wrote: 25.01.19, Sun, 02:01:15
Please note that this forum does not allow discussions on identifying people / people identifying as anything other than masculine or feminine.

Thank you for sharing your perspective. However, I would like to clarify that the statement you made about the forum's rules appears to be incorrect. Discussions around the use of neutral pronouns, such as "they" in English or similar terms in other languages, are not prohibited on this forum.

And so on…

Re: Are you...
Post by Basler Biker » 25.01.24, Fri, 07:01:51

daKanga wrote: 25.01.24, Fri, 05:01:37
This is great to hear—thank you for making this clear in this particular topic.
I fully support this initiative and appreciate the effort to clarify this, especially as it was not previously stated as a ruling.
It's encouraging to see us working collaboratively and honorable to each of us, and as a team in a public forum.

It's great to see this public acknowledgment and the collaborative tone, which helps foster a positive and respectful environment on the forum. I appreciate the effort to clarify the topic here and reinforce shared goals for open and constructive discussions.

… 😕 ❓

Yes, some mods can act as they please… with absolute impunity 🙄

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Back to Mod1's post, it then continues like so…

Therefore instead of creating yet another split topic, this one will just be locked until further notice.

For those that haven't been around long, that means: indefinitely, forever.

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Finally, Mod1's post ends like this…

Also, comments that had been edited to say "Removed by Request", and posts meant to antagonize or troll for sport have been deleted to keep the topic on point.

Let me again translate what that means in this forum: "posts meant to promote changes and offer solutions, or posts meant to complain about something that needs to be improved and that has been continuously ignored, or posts meant to demand an explanation about action from someone of the moderating so-called team."

One just needs to look around the forum to see how many locked threads there are, and take time to read the posts that lead to their being locked.

This so-called antagonization basically results because in this forum some of the mods seem to have absolute unquestioned power to do as they wish without anyone else (i.e. us, normal regular participants) having the possibility of even blinking an eye or sighing at their [sometimes irrational, chaotic, and without criteria] actions under penalty of having our publication censored without any explanation, and when one is given, that is generally meaningless… taking us back to square one. Obviously, from their point of view, someone speaking is synonymous with antagonizing.

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Well, let's see now how long it takes them now to { DELETE, censor, edit, lock, close } this thread/post.

Maybe the time has come for us to take a screenshot of each and everything one writes just to have a record proving what one actually said, to then allow others to see if what was written actually demanded any of the aforementioned sanctions 😐