Black hole observed!

[walter b]

Hi all,

WARNING: The following text may devastate your faith in justice. Keep it away from kids.

1. I recommend reading the thread here. Please note the silent editing (instead of open responding) by a moderator in messages #16, 25, 27, and 30. You will realize this editing stopped the very moment he (and another member) was proven being wrong. Both fell quiet and left their false statements there as they were.
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2. In the thread I started to get the consequences of said moderator's error corrected, at least the ban posed on an innocent fellow member was lifted. I've heard said member even received an excuse per PM (but isn't satisfied AFAIK). All the false stuff, however, still reads in the public fora as it was before the moderator's enlightenment.
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3. Please note the extensive editing and soon statements as long as the moderators thought being right - and compare with the coverage after they've been proven wrong in that matter. Additionally, the respective threads were closed before others could comment. Moderators use their rights in a way which doesn't always look impartial to observers. BTW, moderators may still add posts to and edit in closed threads. Watch them.
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4. Rewarding the unvealing of said moderator's false judgement and initiating its correction I received - guess what? - 3 points for one year and an immediate ban of unknown duration. For comparison: Even in North Korea, convicts (after a 'fair' trial without defense as well) are told their sentence. So much about minimum standards and models for civilised treatment.
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5. Asking the moderators for the missing information is like trying to communicate with a black hole. Wikipedia will tell you more about it.
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6. Feel free to check other threads for symmetry of judgment as well. Take into account who's using English as his/her mother tongue and who's not. Can't help it, I'm quite sensitive to asymmetries.
   

Lessons learned? Well, what - I guess - they want us to learn:
Don't talk back! Right or wrong, my moderator! Don't stand up for equal rights. "And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other."

Just my observations obviously serving as the guinea pig for forum justice. Meanwhile, statistics suffice to assess said behavior of 'moderators' here isn't an exception but a regular pattern.

d:-/ (apologizing in advance for any wrong expression in a foreign language)

P.S.: Moderator (Latin) means a person tempering e.g. the moods of people in a discussion. This meaning is explained in German Wikipedia but not in the English one. The opposite term is agitator. Maybe a renaming should be considered here.

P.P.S.: By extrapolating the balanced forum policy as experienced in real life so far, this message might lead to another ban of unknown duration. No, not of said 'moderator' - heaven beware! After all, history has shown many times that beheading messengers carrying unwelcome messages is a sustainable way of not becoming disturbed by facts.

P.P.P.S.: I was told by an expert that one shouldn't use irony towards children <11 years of age - they simply can't understand it yet. Thus, keep the above text away from kids.