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recent events such as those you described have occurred and how did that lead you here? You don't have to answer ofc, I'm plainly just being nosey

I wasn't sure what your query was knobmeup!
There was a thread in the health forum on crystal healing, another member posted a message enquiring if there was any evidence that the effects were due to anything other than placebo, Zhiba stepped in, I'm not sure what was said but Zhiba took it upon itself to remove that comment from the thread and start a new thread in the other posters name and without their permission, the OP being the removed post.
Zhiba was made to look like an idiot after calling members trolls for asking for proof of claims on health related topics ,became threatening ,claimed it was operating solely as a member in the thread ( while having started the thread with mod privileges).
I expressed my disgust at Zhiba's actions as did a couple of others, especially given it was the health forum and Zhiba started removing posts and handing out infringements, I received three for insulting members (which I did but only after being insulted first myself), the member who Zhiba set up got temporarily suspended, (I doubt those who had insulted me and supported Zhiba got infringements, nor should they , let 'em speak). Zhiba informed me by PM while handing out infractions that I could not discuss it's actions in the open after removing more posts from me informing members of Zhiba's actions in the thread ,I sent PMS to Sean (no response) and Shanticat, who responded that it was fine with Zhiba starting threads using other members profiles and that it would not discuss moderation of other members, a non-response in effect,(I had included the unedited versions of the thread for context as I realised before the infractions and suspensions were handed out what was going on) perhaps SHcat didn't read the content or possibly couldn't comprehend it, then my PMs were disabled and that's pretty much it.
A few days beforehand I had seen a thread in which a member said they were leaving, had had enough of the mods games etc, I didn't read it fully, went back to read it a couple of minutes later and it was gone, it re-appeared and when I checked it again it was gone.
I was actually a little surprised by the whole thing and a little angered as the whole thing had been started by some asking a question in a Health forum.I
It's disgusting behavior given the context, there's a long thread there at the moment on Cancer that the member who was set up and suspended had contributed a lot too, as had others, to see that kind of infantile behavior with that as the background is inexcusable.
I did a search for relevant terms (use your imagination

)and got good few results but the longest relevant thread was here. It was funny too because I came across a good few people who I remember used to be on the forum who stood out in my mind as being somewhat reasonable/critical, I thought they'd left due to all the chaff but I guess they were escorted out of that digital multiverse.