Originally Posted by Jenbel

And, since moderators were unable to defend themselves - they (as I wasn't one at the time) found there were a large number of outright lies being put out (for example, one might be 'I was suspended for wishing someone a Happy Birthday!' when the member knew full well that was symptom, not the cause), which could not be refuted due to Randy's restrictions to the mods on discussing discipline with anyone other than the person disciplined and possibly other mods/Randy. These lies sounded terribly oppressive to those who didn't know the real truth, fostering ill-feeling against the moderators - who could not speak back/give their version/post what had actually happened.