John: Posts are hidden when they are flagged by readers. The moderators then referee the decision and the posts are hidden with a comment sent to the poster or restored.
Please refer to this link and let the moderators know by PM if you have any questions:
Peaceful Science is a diverse community that encourages open dialogue on a wide variety of subjects that people are sometimes passionate about and personally invested in. Recently, we, the moderators, have been notified of several posts in a thread which crossed the line from strong criticism to attacks on personal character.
While we wish to promote the free discussion of ideas and topics from all community members, in order to keep our community healthy we feel that some common ground rules around respecting each other’s voices need to be reiterated:
It is fine to point out errors etc. in people’s scientific work. However, please be reasonably gracious about it and make sure that the error etc. in question is relevant to the discussion.
This forum does not tolerate the attribution of nefarious motives to any figure in the origins debate (whether a public figure or a fellow participant).
This forum does not tolerate excessively aggressive and/or gratuitous criticisms of a public f…