Then why use silly terms like shadow-removed as if we are some sort of secretive cabal? There is nothing shadowy about the fact that, frankly, this forum has been a much less chill and respectful place recently, which is absolutely regrettable, but it’s outside of my power to change that. In my ideal, at least, people should be free to say basically whatever they want, so long as it’s relevant and civil, but that requires all parties to engage in good faith, which I think we can probably agree is not currently the case.
It also seems to me that a lot of complaints basically come down to thinking unlisted posts demonstrate a lack of transparency, but I don’t know how else we can be expected to remove posts which violate the rules.
In the spirit of transparency, we are currently engaged in a conversation regarding this internally, but it has not yet yielded anything for us to share.
This will be the definitive post on this topic because these posts are disruptive to the users who are solely here to discuss privacy and security-related topics. It’s also more constructive if we can have a general conversation here rather than individuals posting wanting more information about specific posts of theirs; those questions should still be directed to @moderators.