HTC has always allowed accepted and asked for the Aces High Community to self police itself in-game! period
so what Fess has described in his opening post is within 100% of what HTC expects from the AH community in my personal understanding and view
someone posted that they know of "entire groups of players" who have left because of the so called "HTC allowed governing by Moderators" <---- not quoted word for word by the person who wrote it but still, out of being here since '99, I have yet to see or hear of "entire groups" leaving because of the way the community self polices itself nor how the HTC vetted Moderators do their jobs!
if they left, they left because they did not like hitech's sandbox that he lets us all have the privilege of playing in! or they perhaps lost a few members because of being banned, so the rest left... just guessing
The only thing in this thread that I might not would have typed myself was the comparing in-game text buffer/pm's / vox back to something that happened the WWII era...... ( I am not trying to back seat moderate here, but people should refresh themselves with what the forum posting rules are, it might help you not get your thread locked... I am thinking of rule 14 I believe??? )
I was not online nor even know of the incident, but I would guess that Fess was not the only person to stand up and call the person out for "bullying", I would assume their were probably some others who backed his call of the situation.....
TC