Perhaps it is because I've moderated some mailing lists in the past?
If I'm being chased by an unmarked car, which it seems like, you should at least own up to it.
No, I just believe in giving someone the opportunity to recognize the consequences of their behavior and modify it, before I make a complaint.
Pointing out you are the only one whining to the moderator after weeks of this disucussion is not a personal attack. It's simply an observation that is stated for the record.
No, I'm not the only one. At least one of your friends has a long history of having his posts removed and even entire threads deleted because there were so many complaints. It got to the point that some of these threads looked like Swiss cheese by the time I was able to read them.
I don't see many complete deletions anymore, perhaps because the moderators realized that they were encouraging bad behavior. If you didn't like the direction a thread was going, you just had to annoy the moderators sufficiently to get the thread deleted altogether, so it didn't come back to haunt you. Now, such threads usually get moved to a section that takes the article off the front page, where no one but the original contributors can easily find it.
Look, there's an easy way for you to resolve this: end the personal attacks. And, the best way to end the personal attacks is to leave politics out of the tech forum. There are plenty of other forums on this website for political discussions: I'm sure you can have lots of fun trading insults with other people that will enjoy it.
Yes, if true that could explain it. But this ain't your mail list.
before I make a complaint.
"Before"? Why now act ashamed you have done this, when you were so quick to hit the momma button above?
And, the best way to end the personal attacks is to leave politics out of the tech forum.
FYI this is not a 'tech' forum. Hacker hangouts are worthless boards, and FR has much more to offer. It's 99% politics here, so you need to go elsewhere if politics, especially criticism of left wing fanaticism, offends you.
I have been inundated with personal attacks by the "free" software/music/younameit guys because my comments place proper critique on their actions. Yet, I have only hit the momma button once, that in regard to someone posting the full name and other details of one of the posters. Get your hounds to pipe down some and I might be more sympathetic to your whine. But I won't take your offer to enter a "momma button contest", and I think the admins will appreciate that.