Well, having
@neroden banned just sucks.
As evidenced by the original post in this thread, the mods can toss out insulting comments at will. Really how can a moderator read the OG post, then not step up, and also apologize for it, once pointed out?
Over my years here, too many knowledgeable posters have been banned. Was it deserving? No me knows. Just have to take @ Bonnie and others word about the process, yet that is a real difficult pill to swallow when you just witnessed intelligent, thoughtful posts get deleted, and a moderator insult a member (. It an isolated incident may I add).
There has long been a pro-tesla slant to the moderation, since the day I joined here. In the early days, after I had a post “ modified” the moderator came right out and told me “ we have to be careful how Tesla is perceived In the public” and that’s why they changed my post. They not only changed it but left me negative feedback. Now this was not a huge change, but directly confirms that censorship has and will happen, even when no one is insulted, except for a publicly traded multi billion dollar company.
Yeah maybe no one has ever been banned for criticizing tesla, but likely that was a , if not the primary ingredient that started the chain reaction.
Criticize>moderate>frustration with poor moderation/ overt censorship.....brewhaha.....ban
The investor forum is a giant echo chamber, with no healthy opposition anymore. Those opposed were shamed out. Now people on the same side can argue the irrelevant minutiae.
The fact that TMC tried to ban discussion of this..,shows you the dictatorship attitude and poor decision making that mods are capable of.
Well maybe
@DaveT will come back.
