I'm not sure if you are unfamiliar with the process, or merely voicing your displeasure. If it is the former, in the interest of clarifying how this works, the TOS outline the process whereby a member may appeal a moderation or removal of posting privileges: Membership is a privilege and reserve the right to deny service to any person with or without cause or notification. If a member feels they have been unfairly denied service or has received unfair moderation, an appeal may be sent by e-mail to appeals@scubaboard.com. Each appeal will be reviewed by senior moderators who were not previously involved in the issue that led to the appealed suspension or moderation.
A ScubaBoard Staff Message...
Marg, SB Senior Moderator
I shall comment upon your comments.
Only once during my time on SB was I so ticked off by a moderation of a thread (in one particularly unpleasant, implicit conflict of interest type case) that I appealed against the moderation. I send a carefully prepared complaint specifying what I thought was done wrongly and why. I received no response whatsoever. I complained about it and NetDoc assured me it must have been "lost" and I should resubmit my appeal. So I did. And nothing happened again. No response. Certainly no reversal of the decision. I got a private PM from Quero which I interpreted as tacitly supporting me, but nothing more than that.
Not sure if my experience is universal or not. But I won't waste the time and effort to appeal poor moderation again. Don't pretend you have an appeals process if it files direct to the waste paper bin.