This is not what happened at all
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Originally Posted by markw
At least one of the moderaters saw fit to simply delete posts that he didn't like. Having the power to delete posts he didn't agree with was too much of a temptation for him. Rather than openly discuss his objections, he would simply delete posts on the pretext that they were against forum rules.
The thread in question is one in which there was a lot of forum violations. The only reason that I didn't intervene is that the moderator in question was involved in the thread.
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Granted, he was the exception but, when his deletions started occuring with regularity and impunity, it became apparant that two sides of an issue could no longer be aired here.
No, it became apparent that he was having a problem not becoming emotionally involved in his job.
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When this forum appeared to be changing from an open forum where two sides could be discussed to a forum where only one side of an argument was allowed, many people fled this site to others where it's commonly recognized that there are two sides to an argument and simply repressing one is not a viable option.
Now your way off base. First, the people who left, left long before this fight took place.
Second, there's nobody who's not allowed to argue a position here. It's when you start calling other people stupid, deaf, or delusional that things get cut.
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Subsequently, management got wise to the sitution and that renegade moderater lost his position and, I believe, was demoted to simply another citizen but he hasn't posted on the board since.
The leaving was a mutual thing. He wasn't demoted, or promoted. I don't think of myself as "promoted" because I'm a moderator.
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But, by that time a great many former regulars fled this galaxy for another.
The jury is still out on how this will play out in the long run but I, myself, find I post more on the other sites and less here nowadays.
Again, way off base. We have hundreds upon hundreds of members in the AR Forums, more now than ever. The jury is NOT out, these forums are BETTER than they ever were. If you choose to post more on another forum that is your choice.