Oh - one quck comment on the futility of questions like "Why on Earth would they...". When people do things that seem stupid (and I am NOT saying that DAZ are deliberately censoring everyones negative opinions) figuring out what the motivation is can seem impossible. That doesn't mean that there isn't a motive - only that we don't know what it is.

To give a real-world example that is not "I know a guy who said a cousin twice removed..." but that happened to me... postmen. Some while ago I complained to our local post office about ninja postmen who seem to kreep up to the door silently, slip through a card saying "we tried to deliver, pick it up from our depot", and then run hell-for-leather away from the door.

I do not have a dog, so it's not fear of Hound of the Baskervilles.

The post-office responded that their postmen have the objective of delivering post, and brushed my complaint aside on the basis of the question "what POSSIBLE motive could they have to NOT want to deliver your package?". At the time, I could come up with no plausable excuse, yet I knew that they had put in little to no effort to deliver to me, because I had been in the whole day - indeed, I picked the card out of my letterbox an hour before the time it had written on it as the "time of attempted delivery".

It wasn't many weeks later that we had an item on our news channel about disgruntled postmen who were considering striking action. It seems that cost-cutting exercises had been implemented which meant that postmen had more work to do in less time, for less pay - and some said they simply couldn't get their rounds done to the schedule, so they got penalised.

Of course, they COULD get round their beats a bit quicker if they didn't stop for people to come to the door, because waiting for people to come from a whole room or two away takes time when you're on the clock like that. And that's what had been happening - still happens, actually. When a postie needs to make up time, they don't wait for you to get to the door - they post a note and legit, so their pay doesn't get docked and their job isn't under threat (and I don't have me package). Once I understood what the motivation was, it was easy to see WHY it was being done - but before knowing the ins-and-outs of the changes to the postal service, I honestly didn't have a clue - it seemd a ludicrous thing for a postman to do - NOT deliver post. Bizzarre, and therefore unlikely.

So - DAZ censoring posts or people for no really valid reason? It seems unlikely, on the face of it, and the motivation appears to be missing. But it may only appear that way to anyone that it hasn't happened to.