You have got to be kidding. EVERYONE can see how much the tone has changed on this board now that mods (and others) can’t hide behind TOS violations for deleting posts.
You are correct that it was not only mods looking to control the narrative. The world has changed for them too.
We routinely see complaints about people objecting to negativity as an unwillingness to hear from the other side. Now, oddly, we are reading about how those with a more sour outlook feel as if they are being targeted and vilified. They are right to complain the Kool Aid drinking obtuse dreamer out of touch with “reality” but the Debbie Downers should be granted free reign?
That’s not how it works, I’m afraid, especially now that the power to control the narrative has been greatly curtailed.
Now we are seeing what EVERYONE thinks, not just a chosen few gleefully manipulating the system for their own benefit.
Ain’t freedom great?