Horatio old chap.
Thank you for your reasoned thoughts on this subject.
'Tis true PPRuNe is NOT a democracy as decreed by Danny.
'Tis true D & G is run with a very light rein compared to the other Forums, be grateful for that.
'Tis true there are, occasionally, issues that we believe and by we, I mean Danny, Rob and us et al, are so vitally important to our pilot community they will get not only tacit but direct support from us.
Danny and Rob sit on many important aviation safety and regulatory advisory organisations, your Woomera are regularly consulted likewise.
Identities are inviolable and in so far as we are able to guess them are guarded jealously and absolutely without prejudice to third parties.
There is much that goes on behind the "screen" so to speak that requires application of our judgement and direct participation that remains unseen.
Direct comment is not entered into by us lightly, nor without considerable consultation between us and the Boss if necessary.
We do not as Woomera have any agenda, save to provide the Forum for you to use according to the rules.
Danny Rob and their minion are regular visitors and observers of a forum they personally find fascinating for its vigour.
So far and we work hard at it, we have managed to steer a positive path throughout a fair bit of sturm und drang.
So far PPRuNes record in progressing our profession is pretty substantial around the world.
Sometimes we have to make unwelcome decisions about posts and their general effect in the context of the particular thread.
Unless I am mistaken you have been the unwilling subject of one decision that caused you to make what we thought was an intemperate and undeserved judgement of one of us in another place. It's OK we have big shoulders and understand why you would have been upset, but we did not have the time or opportunity to explain why to you personally after it was pointed out to us.
If this were a democracy we would have a separation of church and state, it is not.
If the use of the "Woomera" adds credibility, we think hard won, to a position of natural justice and common sense, then in an environment that often seems to be singularly free of it, then so be it.
Slave labour is something most civilised First World communities will not tolerate.
Malfeasance in any form in a democracy is not acceptable.
Exposure of it, humbug and corruption is something PPRuNe does well.
We stand on our record, it may not be perfect, but we never suggested we were.
Enjoy!