There is at least one claim still unanswered. The rules have pretty much been no racist posts, no abscenities, no personal attacks, no spam. I think if those are the rules people are told when they come in, they will be kind of shocked to get thrown out for not breaking them. Not that this bestows on anyone any right to stay, as the terms of use are pretty clear it is up to the management. It just means that they have a reasonable complaint.
I do agree it is bellyaching at this point. Jim Rob has heard this complaint over and over. It's up to him to decide what to do, if anything. In the meantime, everyone is clear in knowing that anything can happen. I personally think the moderators are overzealous, but that is the way it is. Take it or leave it. I did complain once that a whole thread was pulled because I put a lot of researched links on it and one bad freeper caused the whole thing to go down. Low and behold, the thread was reinstated with only the offending post removed. Because of that I think that JimRob does have a forgiving, merciful soul and will do the right thing when presented with a reasonable opportunity to do it. B*tching and moaning and getting into a p*ssing match doesn't appeal to one's forgiving side.
Well, actually, we were getting a lot of complaints about too many posts being pulled, etc., so I asked the moderators to lighten up a bit. We're now pulling only the very worst and issuing fewer warnings and banning or suspending only on the worst offenses (unless we spot an obvious disruptor, racist, bully, etc.). This has been in effect for a couple two or three days. And now? You guessed it. The complaints are starting to pick up the other way. We're now being accused of leaving up way too much crap. Ok, just as long as we stay somewhere closer to the middle between the two extremes, perhaps we can keep this thing on the tracks. Kinda tricky balancing the wants and needs of so many disparate groups. We can't please them all, so we try to keep working toward our own goals (you know, less gov, less taxes, less intrusion, more freedom, life, liberty, happiness, fewer marxists in gov, etc. [oh, yeah, many people get so tied up in fighting with each other that they forget we have a larger purpose here]) while trying to please as many of our conservative/right-wing factions as possible. Some can't hack it. It's gotta be wide open or nothing. Others say you can't deviate from the straight and narrow. Well, some who crap out get banned, some who can't take it go away and never come back, some become life-long FReeper friends and some become life-long anti-FReepers. We do the very best we can with what we have and we don't worry too much about the ones who can't hack it.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.