Banned... No good deed goes unpunished

Speaking as someone who received a Raspberry Pi as present yesterday, and is now online shopping for accessories, reading the 'Getting Started' guides, exploring the many forums and communities, and as someone who has extensive experience of using forums, moderating and being moderated, it is extremely important to maintain a happy, collaborative, community, and moderators mostly do a thankless job which is absolutely essential.

It is also essential to recognise when you've had your knuckles cracked by a moderator, what it was that you did to get that painful attention, learn from it, grow in character, adapt and become a better member of the community and assist the forum by maintaining the happy, collaborative, community spirit.

It doesn't take a minute to see why a moderator would take issue with the post concerned. The information contained within-it is business related (not community related) and should have been PM'd to an official staff member if the OP truly wanted to help the RaspPi people stay on top. A public forum which is meant to provide a great resource for the community, is not a place to be spreading rumour/speculation/negativity about the product the forum is provided for.

Common sense prevails.

Quantify and qualify what do you mean about "extensive experience of using forums." afaik you just joined this one.

There is much more than what you can see in the surface, and one of the biggest issues I find with some of the moderators on the RPF forum is that they have the constant habit to answer questions that nobody asked, and if your question is not what they qualify as inline with their view of the world you could be treated as a second class dumb newbie or if you make any statements about issues you become a concern troll.

IMHO moderators are the ones that increase the SNR in several orders of magnitude over there, the should stay quiet, if they don't have any useful piece of information or are not able to share, but if somebody goes to the extremes they should "moderate," not just judge and sentence people willing to cooperate and participate.

-J

Quantify and qualify what do you mean about "extensive experience of using forums." afaik you just joined this one.

There is much more than what you can see in the surface, and one of the biggest issues I find with some of the moderators on the RPF forum is that they have the constant habit to answer questions that nobody asked, and if your question is not what they qualify as inline with their view of the world you could be treated as a second class dumb newbie or if you make any statements about issues you become a concern troll.

IMHO moderators are the ones that increase the SNR in several orders of magnitude over there, the should stay quiet, if they don't have any useful piece of information or are not able to share, but if somebody goes to the extremes they should "moderate," not just judge and sentence people willing to cooperate and participate.

-J