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At first I thought it was a joke, but now I see it's just straight-up disrespect.
A moderator is targeting BlackRock in the Politics - Topic: Terrorism subforum in Europe by unjustifiably deleting posts from users—including mine. Honestly, I’m worried this is a blatant abuse of power. I’m not talking to him directly; I’m addressing the other mods and the higher-ups. I'm asking for this grievance to be taken seriously, or at the very least, for that mod to get a formal warning.
Here's the deal: today I stayed strictly on topic (!) by posting a single comment regarding that tragic terrorist attack in France and including a link to the news story. He nuked my post, and when I protested the unfair deletion, I got hit with a warning. Look, I get that part—complaining about deletions in the wrong place isn't allowed. But I absolutely cannot wrap my head around why posts that are actually on-topic are being wiped out. He claimed it was because there was "already a long discussion ongoing," even though that other discussion had nothing to do with the topic (!) at hand—just like how a news report about a psycho killing people in Japan wouldn't fit there. Yet, I was told I went off-topic when I was actually staying dead center on the subject. It's pure absurdity. But hey, people screw up.
Fast forward a bit later in the same thread: I comment on-topic again. I'm discussing that incident in Germany involving a maniac killing a doctor (whatever, doesn't matter now) and answering another user's question about the political and ideological motivations behind terrorism—which is the entire point of the thread. And what happens? That same moderator (!) wipes those posts too. This isn't moderation anymore. This is personal and it's an abuse of authority. Every single one of my posts was relevant to the topic; I'd bet anything on it. I didn't take screenshots so I don't have "proof," but if they check the deleted logs, they'll see I'm telling the truth. Other users are seeing this too.
I originally thought about staying quiet because anyone can make a mistake, and yeah, I did complain in the wrong spot once. But this repeated pattern of deleting on-topic posts is completely unjustified.
I'm asking for this legitimate complaint to be heard and for a review of the moderator handling BlackRock.
A moderator is targeting BlackRock in the Politics - Topic: Terrorism subforum in Europe by unjustifiably deleting posts from users—including mine. Honestly, I’m worried this is a blatant abuse of power. I’m not talking to him directly; I’m addressing the other mods and the higher-ups. I'm asking for this grievance to be taken seriously, or at the very least, for that mod to get a formal warning.
Here's the deal: today I stayed strictly on topic (!) by posting a single comment regarding that tragic terrorist attack in France and including a link to the news story. He nuked my post, and when I protested the unfair deletion, I got hit with a warning. Look, I get that part—complaining about deletions in the wrong place isn't allowed. But I absolutely cannot wrap my head around why posts that are actually on-topic are being wiped out. He claimed it was because there was "already a long discussion ongoing," even though that other discussion had nothing to do with the topic (!) at hand—just like how a news report about a psycho killing people in Japan wouldn't fit there. Yet, I was told I went off-topic when I was actually staying dead center on the subject. It's pure absurdity. But hey, people screw up.
Fast forward a bit later in the same thread: I comment on-topic again. I'm discussing that incident in Germany involving a maniac killing a doctor (whatever, doesn't matter now) and answering another user's question about the political and ideological motivations behind terrorism—which is the entire point of the thread. And what happens? That same moderator (!) wipes those posts too. This isn't moderation anymore. This is personal and it's an abuse of authority. Every single one of my posts was relevant to the topic; I'd bet anything on it. I didn't take screenshots so I don't have "proof," but if they check the deleted logs, they'll see I'm telling the truth. Other users are seeing this too.
I originally thought about staying quiet because anyone can make a mistake, and yeah, I did complain in the wrong spot once. But this repeated pattern of deleting on-topic posts is completely unjustified.
I'm asking for this legitimate complaint to be heard and for a review of the moderator handling BlackRock.