fair complaint about Audiogon, violating no guidelines, removed

Noticed that this morning. If there wasn't any kind of violation then the admins have some pretty serious explaining to do. Very sensitive group it appears. They deleted one of my responses on a different discussion, presumably because I mentioned a big-box hardware retailer by name. Who knows? If the moderators are going to just go around sanitizing every discussion based on some arbitrary mood then I don't see the point of coming here anymore. Too bad. I enjoyed reading the opinions and got some good intel

@cleeds That is reassuring to hear and if this was a one-off I'd treat it as an error or glitch however, I have seen this complaint raised by several participants before and while some can probably be written off as cranks or nonsense, it does seem to occur much more than I would expect.

I have only been using this site for 5 or 6 months but that's long enough to get a feel for the overall tone of the forum. This seems like a pretty good-natured bunch of technical hobbyists and industry professionals. I don't see many apocalyptic, offensive, fringe-dwelling extremists to deal with so when I notice a disproportionate number of complaints about posts being deleted, especially by pretty well regarded members, that does give me pause.

True; it's a private company and they can do whatever they want with their business as far as I'm concerned, but deleting your customer's comments without any explanation probably isn't going to draw many people in.