Alex, I'll be brief because I've got to get to work. Reading these replies I was starting to mentally prepare a reply of my own for later posting tonight, but with your posts here and the PM's from David and you I'm getting, I see there's no point. It's a catch-22: I'm off base to begin with by daring to criticize the moderation, apparently, so it's pointless to further buttressing my argument. (And I think you have a false impression of the moderation because you don't spend significant time on the forum outside the Skeptiko show threads, or this thread that you've set up.) I was also responding to your question, by the way.
Ian is not a volunteer, he's a poster.
That's right, Alex. I'm just a (lowly?) poster, like many others here (who supposedly form a community?). No, I don't think it gives me any privileges. Yes, I do feel, after having spent many years (5) investing my time here, like many other forum members, that I'm allowed to care about seeing something that, in my very subjective view (but apparently I'm not alone), is hurting the forum, even though I recognize it's not my place to make any decisions.
(On "not being a volunteer", I'll just say that I have helped you a few times putting shows together, also like other members here, and also putting 60+ hours in helping you start writing your book. I don't think that gives me any privileges, but I just thought I'd put out there re: "not being a volunteer".) Over and out for me on any of this.