Yes it matters.
One post by itself doesn't matter, but I'm going not going to continue posting stuff in general discussion if I have no way to predict what will be deleted and what won't. It really ticks me off when people censor what I write and prevent me from chatting with my online friends.
Imagine if you were at a pub, and chatting with your buddies, abd every time you strayed from the topic of women, sports, or politics, someone blew an air horn and prevented any further discussion of the topic. That would make it pretty difficult to get to know the people you're interacting with, and pretty soon you'd probably stop going to that pub because even if you try to avoid triggering the air horn, a few of the people who have control of it are a bit overzealous and you can never quite predict if they'll decide a topic is forbidden. If you had to put up with that, wouldn't you just find another pub to hang out at, where more people hang out and can chat about whatever they like because it's not run like some totalitarian dictatorship?
Having rules is okay, if they are loosely and reasonably enforced, but this is going overboard, and refusing to explain why a topic has been forbidden, and hiding the mod who did the deletion to protect his identity, is just completely unreasonable.
One post by itself doesn't matter, but I'm going not going to continue posting stuff in general discussion if I have no way to predict what will be deleted and what won't. It really ticks me off when people censor what I write and prevent me from chatting with my online friends.
Imagine if you were at a pub, and chatting with your buddies, abd every time you strayed from the topic of women, sports, or politics, someone blew an air horn and prevented any further discussion of the topic. That would make it pretty difficult to get to know the people you're interacting with, and pretty soon you'd probably stop going to that pub because even if you try to avoid triggering the air horn, a few of the people who have control of it are a bit overzealous and you can never quite predict if they'll decide a topic is forbidden. If you had to put up with that, wouldn't you just find another pub to hang out at, where more people hang out and can chat about whatever they like because it's not run like some totalitarian dictatorship?
Having rules is okay, if they are loosely and reasonably enforced, but this is going overboard, and refusing to explain why a topic has been forbidden, and hiding the mod who did the deletion to protect his identity, is just completely unreasonable.