Re: MS are the scapegoat?
That is true for basically _any_ forum on the internet run by a corporate entity (and most non-corporate ones as well): "say anything not nice about us, or dare even just discussing anything related to moderation and bang you're perma-banned". And absolutely all mods are dicks - it's an occupational hazard; don't ever try to talk sense with them no matter how undeniably right you might be and no matter how civil a tone you might use - the mere act of talking back to them, of contesting their decisions is intolerable and prompts swift and merciless reprisals. You're wrong by definition, they're right by definition, full stop. In the corporate view your only right on their boards is to do their job for them for free by supporting your fellow forum members with their questions that no official rep (there aren't any) will ever bother to chime in on - in my view they can all go to hell in a handbasket, mods up front.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
