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I invite your Attention to this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/965659/posts?page=682#682

Although this could be seen as a mere quibble, on my part, I believe that it illustrates one of the frustrations felt in attempting to discern what is allowed, and what is not allowed. What makes it impossible, is that the communication of permissible (or not permissible) is both unidirectional, and curt. This makes the removal of a post seem, or appear, to be arbitrary and capricious.

That being the case, there two basic tendencies, on the part of posters:

1. Be afraid, and back off from any post you think is controversial, no matter how TRUE. This can lead to not posting at all, either to one other poster, or a whole group: consider the whole "FR Fifth Amendment" fiasco. It demonstrates that a small group, acting together, [and, to the more suspicious, acting in concert with a Mod who is in that group] can completely halt, nay remove, any discussion about either the founder of that group, or the actual tenets of that group.
2. Keep posting more abusive or outrageous posts, in a juvenile attempt to discern the "boundaries."

I think that this situation is not good. I think that it would be good, if we were able to enter into a direct communication (dialog, if you will) regarding just what the standards are. That would be much better than attempting to guess the reason, after a post is removed.
There are other reasons that it would be good to be able to communicate with a Mod, before the fact, instead of after. For instance, I have been contemplating a certain post, for a week, or more. I am trying to figure out where to put it, whether to post it in three parts, or one BIG part; or to do an executive summary, and link to the original.
Another case is a fairly new poster, who posts multiple articles, and never includes the source, or author, or date, so people cannot "consider the source..." I do not know if this is against some rule, and I don't want to push "ABUSE." It would be good to have direct communication with a mod, while not making an accusation of abuse.