I've been talking with a couple of members privately about some of the perceived over-moderation in other areas of the forum and, yes, even some of my own posts were edited or deleted; and that's not unique to this forum, but I've had it happen in other forums I frequent.
My advice to them was something I started doing a few years ago when it came to expressing my opinion:
What I learned to do was to surround the opinion with something like:
[IMO]
...
[/IMO]
or, if I'm feeling a bit more assertive:
[IMNSHO]
...
[IMNSHO]
or, text followed by... (IMO, YMMV)
These qualifiers sometimes saves the post as it clearly states that I am not speaking as an authority (or simply being a smart @$$ on the topic, which I should expect would be edited or deleted - this last one sometimes comes as a shock to my fellow mods :) ).
That can sometimes make the difference...
