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Originally Posted by dairuss86
Why do my tasteful and well considered posts get deleted all the time? Why do I get arbitrarily temp-banned and pseudo self-banned?
Let me tell you; I am blatantly being marginalised by mods who are english xenophobes. american culture transcends politics, an off the cuff remark about guns/obesity is not "politarding" - it's a known fact in the real world.
Recent PGC censorship really takes the cake. It's a disgrace that my positive input was immediately rebuffed without explanation. It's like the mods can't see what everybody else can see.
Scandalous.
What VideoPro said, but since I'm here and a PG&C mod, I'll respond to a couple of points.
Sure, one could argue that "an off the cuff remark about guns/obesity" isn't politarding on its own, but it's not usually important/relevant to the conversation, and much more importantly, often leads to a political derail, so mods will delete posts like that trying to avoid the inevitable.
As for PG&C, we're pretty hands-off there, and typically only respond to post reports. But when they are reported, we'll often delete personal attacks, trolls, and derails, and will usually be pretty liberal with the OP requests we'll grant. IE if a particular OP wants his thread to be more civil and reports a few more posts, we're usually fine with dealing with them, even if that means some threads are modded a little differently than others. Really, that's mostly a function of the fact that PG&C is not meant for trolling, but mods don't proactively enforce that, and instead rely on post reports.
I recall deleting one of your posts the other day, which was part of a brief insult exchange - didn't think it was all that noteworthy at the time. Sorry if you felt that was censoring you.
If you have further PG&C concerns, feel free to PM me.