Given up here. Unnaccountable moderation makes messages someone doesn't like for some reason disappear without any notification. I didn't sign up for perfectly reasonable things I say to be removed silently and secretly, almost slyly; if you're too impolite to notify who you moderate the reason for your action then you shouldn't be moderating..

Breaking news:

Oh what a surprise, my comments to wjandrea on a question I can’t even find any more because it no longer appears in my All actions->comments have been silently erased. Genius.

MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM GODERATORS:

We're writing in reference to your Stack Overflow account:

https://stackoverflow.com/users/2318649/balmy

Please don’t flood some beginner’s question with unrelated comments. Meta Stack Overflow is where discussion of the site itself is on topic.

Slightly older breaking news:

I won’t delete myself only because then this won’t be visible. I’m out of here because the Goderators are unanswerable to the people they’re unaccountably and invisibly trampling over. Scrap, scrape; who cares. Maybe this profile will be Goderated - you’ll never know.

Slightly older breaking news:

Currently distinctly hacked off with the invisble Goderation - you didn’t know it was there, did you? That’s probably because they like sneaking around and deleting stuff without leaving any trace, and apart from one exception I’ll describe below, without telling anyone or even - gasp - you that they’re doing it.

The one exception is when I am prepared to agree I overstepped the thin blue line.

I’m currently considering my position vis-a-vis whether it’s worth bothering with this place given the lack of transparency and accountability of the Goderators.

Older news:

I have quite a few years experience in hardware design, embedded systems, software development in C, C++, PC architecture, networking, RS232/serial comms, Windows, Requirements Management, UML and SDL modelling, scripting using Perl and Python, paper tape reader/punch interfacing, ...

By day I work for a large IT organisation, and all information I post and share here is personal and in no way represents or reflects my employer's views.