Moderation: how do I complain?

Yes, I did answer his question:

"You've already made your official complaint here. The moderators will see it as they obviously did in the other thread."

"Ignore him, try to answer posts, and when you get 150 points you will be able to hit the Report Abuse button each time he does this. Other than that act like none of his posts exists, or, within the thread you are in if there is someone posting with 150 points ask them to hit the Report Abuse button. But you probably won't have to ask, they will have already done so."

"Take the high road and let the moderators handle it. "

"So take your letter from the hosts construcively and move on. P.S. This is not a goverment site, you aren't entitled to any due process here."

missed that. I was wrong about you.

I'd try to be perfectly on topic this time.

Here today I see a perfect example of fundamental flaw of local moderation system.

Look, there are no problem with deletion of my last post in thread - probably it is arguable on-topic no less than other posts in this exactly thread, but that doesn't matter.

Matters that we can see here an example of THREE MONTH deferred moderation, unneeded - as there are no flamewar and thread are de-facto dead.

That shows us example of moderation incompetence - and absolute lack of mechanism to correct that

Yes, incompetence - cos thread gain (my) attention (and viable cause) for heating up again - exactly due to moderator action.

And in this(and similar) case(s) forum have absolutely no ways to change/correct situation - as there are no trails that something happens. Nothing to gain other moderator/supermoderator attention.

Furthermore, this action shows us that 3-month-long time of first-level moderatorial reaction on post in directly addressed to moderation thread. That give me a thought - if there are any supermoderation, what will be their reaction time? Year? Ten years?

There are no chances that forum, controlling with 3-month lags, will be in control. Only chance - self-organisation of users - what we partially see here. Again - no mechanics to help users self-organise. No groups, no messaging. All user interconnection - strictly outside forum. Noncence.

Actually we have here closed (hidden) hierarhy without feedback and "social elevators". This structure will only work well when reactions are fast and competent - and they are not fast nor competent here.

System is deadly flawed and probably out of control.

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Who is this misterious Staff? Kinda Illuminati? Superhumans without smallest flaws? Wintermute creatures or something from deep space?

No feedback - no error correction - constant lowering of S/N ratio - death for forum.

THIS forum will not die - cos here are a lot of one-timers with their problems, but this luck of feedback definitely leads to lowering of moderation quality - thus to lowering of forum quality

If this'll be deletion in any other place, I'd passed it by - but in thread on moderation itself I feel it unacceptable.

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Thanks for this.