...If you believe a post has been removed incorrectly or they're being removed often without reason and suspect a mod is abusing his power or attacking a person then create a thread about it or contact theymos. If mods were abusing their power and repeatedly removing posts for incorrect reasons it would be instantly apparent...
So, there is no other way and I would have to open a new special thread to know why my posts were deleted?
I don't know if mod in the mining section is abusing his power or even if it was a moderator from this board who deleted my posts and that is the biggest problem.
It is clear that somebody removes posts from this section and many times is very hard or even impossible to find a reason for this, additionally, it happens frequently as other members stated in this thread. The mining board looks pretty bad in terms of discussion frequency, new posts, and threads, so such behavior is at least strange in my opinion.
Not unless you ask a mod. If you're confused just said a friendly PM to the sub board mods to see if they can shed some light on it. If you're repeatedly having posts removed that you don't believe should have been then either contact an admin/Global or create thread in Meta with an argument as to why you believe they were removed in error. You can PM as well and I can search the report queue to see if there's any handled reports but if another mod has just removed the post of his own volition then I wouldn't be able to tell. As I've said before, I think the best solution would be for theymos to implement a system where we can choose a reason from a drop down menu and/or give comment in an additional field and that would solve a lot of problems. Sometimes users might make a relevant and on topic post but if it's for instance in a thread that has been necrobumped then all new posts are liable to be removed and this has annoyed a lot of people in the past because they just see their relevant and constructive post get deleted.