I have felt double standarads of mods in PA as well. i think they let their personal political slants effect their better judgement. We have a ban now that prohibits any degradation of pakistani army, and i donot have any problem with that but i have seen countless number of posts by M2K where he is openly calling for all FATA region to be blasted? why should we tolerate that on premises of peace and pakistani? it is our civilians arent they? or is pakistani life cheap?besides targetting one particular area again and again and mods silence on it makes the impression that ethnic targetting is alright. also what is with the concept of calling bearded monkey? beard is part of our deen, culture (in some ethnicities more than others)and doesnt iluminate any particular political stance. I think right now gupistan isnt providing fair moderation. I donot make these complains lightly , i enjoy this forum but something got to give here.
Obviously, there is a problem and you have many senior posters complaining here, many left in the past, and more will continue to leave. I dont think it has to do with all the mods though, and I have full confidence in teggy, the channel manager.
As for the moderating, its not consistent. You will find one mod very vigilant in NOT taking out any insults aimed at tribals or their leaders, or quite simply the people he/she doesn't like. Yet he overlooks insults on people who are considered enemies by the other lot. There should be a fair degree of consistency.
As for this new policy, needless to say it doesn't suit a discussion forum. We cant all be 'yes men' and endorse wars, no matter whose right or wrong. We are told by some that the operation against the Bengalis was wrong, the operation against the MQM terrorism in KArachi was wrong but THIS one is saintly and MUST be supported. Though I personally support it, but dictating what action users should take on a discussion forum is a bad idea and always backfires. Let people debate it out, stop threatening them with zulmat-e-zia please. I request the babu-jees who masterminded this policy to read a little about Habib Jalib. It took the nation decades to figure him out, and now hes hailed as a hero and his poetry is dubbed the poetry of defiance. Keep in mind he spent most of his life in jail because he spoke the bitter truth, and he didn't spare our Armed Forces either. He passed away but just a few weeks ago (15 years after his demise) he received the hilal-e-imtiaz.
Its simple, when we had the whole mumbai escapade, I was really disappointed to see some senior people just recommend the easiest way to deal with them is to ban them on the site. That is defeat in itself. Some of us prefer to let them stay and make sure to provide them with befitting counter arguments and we did so in the past. Quite frankly, this new forum policy is basically a defeat, atleast in my eyes.