@Alex, I think we know that this was not a mechanical crash. You may not want to discuss it, and nobody was making you. However there were people who did want to comment and were interested in what others thought.

@Lampada, Masteradmin; take a glance at the political forum. Something is wrong, when 3/4 of all threads are locked. If the forum can't stomach discussion of Politics anymore for whatever reason, or if it doesn't support the core mission of site, then just remove that section and be done with it. Censorship never happened before, for as long as I've been a member, and it only started as things progressively deteriorated in Ukraine. Right now it looks like censorship, a bit of a farce when there are more closed threads than open threads. It's just not a good reflection on the open climate that you probably want to promote.

I thought I could help to keep that forum reasonably dynamic, interesting, informative and troll free as a Mod, along the lines that it was functioning for many years. But I don't see that I could do anything if the regime is this strict, so if another Mod is needed, I'm not the "right" person for the job, and I probably wasn't a good choice to begin with.