"backed up by fact"
If somebody says that certain hardware is not competitive regarding price as a example it is backed by facts. Would that be accepted as a view or censored because not the new majority view? As I wrote moderation here was much more tolerant here than on sites like amigaworld and that has to do with the moderators. If you put in the same people here than there (what is the case obviously) then you get the same results, a kind of amigaworld 2.0. When that is your goal then it is ok, you own it but that is not what most users here wanted otherwise they would have posted on amigaworld and not here. You understand what I mean?
Here was a different group of users with different interests and views
There are always going to be cases where you (or anybody) disagrees with a moderator's decision, but that's the case on every forum, chat room etc.
I don't think we have to worry about A.org turning into the AW.Net of 2002 though, although Amigakit and Trevor obviously do have a vested-interest in OS4, Amigakit probably makes the majority of its sales on classic hardware expansions (I know that's where most of my spending goes with them), and Trevor is a well-known Amiga addict, he has multiple versions of every Commodore Amiga and also runs MorphOS on several machines (and posts at Morphzone), as well as being a bloody nice bloke to go with it.
A-eon as a business supporting the Amiga are open to new ideas (and ways to make a few quid I'm sure), as their classic sound card project shows, they are keep to support the "real" Amiga as well as OS4 machines.
I'd say this site is in great hands now (and I say this as a former-OS4 user who now uses MorphOS and classic).
