this thread will be gone soon, so I'd like to point out quickly that pprune has a checkered history of moderation when it comes to "democraticness" (a word I just made up).
On another huge global site (nothing to do with flying) I frequent there is a part of the forum for raising moderator issues and it is very open, democratic and reasoned.
To my knowledge (I may be wrong and happy to be told if i am) no such facility exists on pprune.