I think it's a legitimate point, regardless of whether they're in power they should have a sense of integrity when it comes to the management of such a large forum. It's a strange feeling that you're not allowed to publicly criticise a ruling which is intentionally there simply to prevent anybody actually knowing what others have been banned for. It's even worse when there's a chilling effect of anybody actually calling the admins out on this sort of thing, they may even choose to censor this post (even though it doesn't break any rules) simply because they can't stand criticism. Pretending that it's somehow not right to give your views in a forum (OT) dedicated to discussing opinions, in a thread pertaining exactly to the topic is preposterous. Seemingly, the attitude among tip.iters we need to tread carefully around any subject for fear that it might offend the malevolent and autocratic moderation and that they are likely to take any discussion about whether they are doing anything right as a personal attack against them. While I don't feel the moderation is particularly malevolent, I just feel that by not allowing discussion, for no real reason - you're just trying to prevent us from comparing to see if there is a level of consistency in the moderation or whether you're just simply adding rules as a display of power. As I see it, there are two possible occurrences. 1.) We are not allowed to see it, despite nothing shady going on. This is a fallacy because there would be no reason to hide it if nothing shady were going on . 2.) We are not allowed to see it because something shady is going on, and the moderation doesn't want us to know about it. Either way, without letting us discuss the topic - moderation has effectively created a chilling effect surrounding the discussion of warnings, which is awfully suspicious because there would be no reason to. I can understand the logic in not criticising admins for your warning, but to put a complete blanket ban on people discuss their warnings is effectively saying that warnings come from the autocratic moderation and that if we are to discuss whether we feel it's right or not we will be banned. Frankly, it seems obvious to me that something is being covered up but since we're not even allowed to discuss it and make that decision ourselves reasonably we are stuck in the dark.