Pprune is an excellent discussion forum, which has been hugely dependent upon the contribution of a relatively small number of contributors – many of whom have posted 1000s of threads and given a wealth of experience.
GTE undoubtedly falls into that camp, and is one of the reasons for the current outrage.
That hardcore of posters massively add to Pprune, and without them, this website would descend further into junk and discussions limited to passing selection tests/ go around “emergencies” at LHR etc.
It is against that backdrop that it is reasonable to have some comment from the Mods, and not to have posts that they don’t like just locked or deleted.