although OT:
Sa akin lang naman, since I'm not paying for anything here on Philmusic - hence, for me this is a free service - I don't complain about the moderation style of any of the moderators or admins. If i really dislike a certain moderator's style, then i just go to another part of the forum, or not interact within that forum altogether.
Now, I don't know if the moderators are being paid, but my guess is, they're not - and if that's true, then they're doing this as an act of volunteerism.
So, call it power-tripping, call it whatever, the thing is...this place is not a democracy, but the whole internet being what it is...if you don't like it here, you can always set a new forum up somewhere.
I've experienced this situation from two sides: in one of my hobbies, a whole group of pinoys, me included, were told firmly and politely that we should set up our own mailing list (because we were in an international list, and we started conversing in pinoy - yeah, I know, bad manners). We did, and we made it grow. We slowly evolved into a forum, and at the beginning, we promised not to be "power-trippers". but as more and more people started abusing the forum by not reading our rules or following the culture we had created in the forums, we had to get tighter and tighter. So, some people started complaining. I told them politely to create a new forum for themselves, and encouraged them by supporting their efforts and being a member in the new forum. So now, that other forum is a brother forum to ours.
okay, back on topic for me after this. Apologies, Anthria, for the large OT post.