jyri
Moderator
Ok. Replace "ignorant" with "offensive".
At any rate, It seems like you might be making this into something its not.
This scenario doesn't appear to be a personal attack against you or your "freedom of speech".
It seems like you got flagged because what you said others may find offensive and its their job to make sure that everyone on the site feels welcome.
$.02
This exactly. We mods have guidelines to keep this a place that anybody can feel welcome in. I believe that's the idea Mano originally built FP on: to be a easily approachable place where newbies could ask "stupid" questions without getting bashed. Keeping it that way would include making sure there is no aggressive or offensive speech/behaviour towards other individuals or groups of people.
Nobody is going after anybody and it's not about trying to limit anybody's freedom of speech. I personally am a firm believer in that freedom as long as it is not used to try to justificate hate speech (not implying that op had done so, but in general). We do our best to be as righteous as possible when modding. For example if there is a tough call that is not a clear violation of the rules here, we typically ask for second opinions from other mods and the admins before taking any action. So it's not like we are banning people left and right in awe of our own power.
One thing I don't like that the new mods have done is unstickied all of the useful threads and replaced them with their own less useful stickies. Like the cat, Morningstar..he had great tutorials in the Mixing forum but his stuff is nowhere to be found. Where is the "EQ: getting everything in it's own space" thread? smh.
If I remember correctly, there was some sticky cleaning operation because some sections had almost half of the page full of stickies. Just to make new stuff more visible and participating easier. If you got sticky suggestions, shoot a pm to a mod and we'll take a look at it.