Hi @Al_Kafir, welcome back. This reply is by all mods and we’'ll reply only once as a team.
Your suspension for 7 days was a buildup of “incidents” over the last few months. First of all, in a discussion with us you kept asking the same questions over and over again even while we already answered the questions. You even already responded to an answer we gave. And still you kept asking the same questions over and over again. Example 1 and Example 2. That’s not improving the discussion and not in line with the FG. It’s more like spamming opinion or just trying to irritate people.
In another topic you said that you didn’t want to discuss anything with the mods. But a few replies later you asked what the other mods were thinking. So you wanted to talk moderation with us, then you didn’t want to discuss anything with us, only to ask later in the same topic what we think. That’s not improving the discussion and not in line with the FG. Here’s the topic.
When a point was made by a mod, replying to your concerns you said “I can’t be arsed checking”. So you want attention from the mods, someone replies to your concerns but than you’re not improving the discussion by just being ignorant about the answer you were given. Why ask any of us anything than?
Then we have 2 misquotes in 1 topic. Here and here. It can happen once as an accident, but not twice in the same topic. You made it look like Person A said something which Person B said. And it’s not really that hard to quote people in the right way on discourse.
Next we have your reply about moderation again in a topic that’s about marketing. We asked you several times to talk moderation in META, but you keep talking the subject in different categories. And next to that, you implied that we as mods moved several of the new topics to “Off-topic” for being critical which is an incorrect statement as explained here by @anon40790172. You also stated that “it happened before” and is of great concern. That’s again not correct. It implies that mods take topics and move them to “Off-topic” for being critical. We never did such a thing. We move stuff to “Off-topic” because it’s “Off-topic”. When you make false statements like that you’re not improving the discussion which again is not in line with the FG. It gives false information to people that visit our forum (even while not logged in).
You also stated that you don’t want to use @ moderators for any interaction with us. You said:
Not a chance…lol…why on Earth would I raise concerns about a self organising “Tufty club” that believes it has the right to judge and moderate others to the Tufty club itself? You’re all just members of the Community who have pinned badges on themselves…you have absolutely no legitimacy for the positions you hold and I’ll take as much notice of you as you do me - your badge means sod all…
This whole reply is (close to) a personal attack but we decided not to delete it. But again, it shows that you’re not willing to be in line with the FG where it’s stated that one should use @ moderaters if things are unclear. You’re also not improving any discussion with replies like this. Maidsafe pays for this website, we just moderate it as volunteers.
Over the last few months you were asked to propose a different way of running this forum. You were even told that we would post a serious idea with voting etc. as a sticky on the frontpage. But again, you keep making statements that META first needs to be back on the frontpage or that otherwise no one would see your proposal. That’s a very unfair and incorrect statement as explained by @happybeing here. You make it look if we are unwilling to listen to anything you say. But we never received any document with a proposal. In the same topic you made another incorrect statement about how mods were chosen.
This list could even be longer. And it’s not only mods that notice. We received a number of flags/complains as well. And to make one thing clear, we don’t suspend people easily. We have a very good debate about it with the mods before we do. It happened 3 times over the last 1,5 year with different users (except for spam accounts). And we don’t like to do it. But everyone on this forum should stay in line with the Forum Guidelines. We don’t exclude people from that.
The mods.