You have an incredible ability to recharacterize comments in a completely different way, as if the prior comments aren’t available to be read.
The moderator has asked us not to get into arguments about Russia/Wikileaks. There was no comment about not getting into the conduct you engaged in and the moderation response.
So (and without even addressing the substance of a Russia/Wikipedia connection), the initiating comment was:
Sage Rage was kind enough to respond with an answer:
This was followed by cites. Now, as I said, you could have asked what those cites said, or how they supported the statement (presumably a fair thing, since - as I previously noted - you may not have been able to read them). You did no such thing, instead pretending like you knew what the cites said but disagreed with them based on who wrote them.
This was a mischaracterization of what you were given. Which became apparent when you admitted that you dismissed the cites (and the statement they were supporting) because you didn’t read them. When the conversation tried to return to the substance of the statement (which is the subject of the thread), you didn’t address the statement (or even the evidence), but instead confirmed that you were not giving sincere consideration of another poster’s argument.
At this point, it’s a complete hijack, as we are now down the road of talking about what you have read, instead of the subject under discussion - whether there is some connection Russia and Wikileaks.
Others tried to get past this to continue the discussion
But at this point you were moving the goalposts, as it were, and making this about whether claims that were not made were proven to your satisfaction.
(Note that you made no request for “pulling out what is not BS” - you simply dismissed the cites as not worth your time to read. When Sage tried to explain in simple sentences what the cites revealed, you ignored the explanation and demanded the raw information - “What did the internal communications reveal?” - which you had been given links to).
And now we get to my conclusion about moderation.
At this point, the thread was lost. And the reason the thread was lost was because Sage Rate had taken the time to provide you with an answer to your question (one factually supported), which you had completely dismissed, and now - since the thread was all about how satisfied you were - you had upped the ante to demand quotes directly from Wikipedia about how Russia controlled it (despite the fact that nobody was making that claim - in fact, Sage’s original answer to you specifically eschewed the claim that everything Wikipedia did was for Russia)
You derailed the thread, rather than accept the point (there is evidence of a connection between Russia and Wikileaks) or refute the point (with your own links to show otherwise).
Your petulant response was a problem, and moderation seems appropriate.