That includes some of my own (Merited) posts in topics that weren't self-moderated, and Ratimov indeed should indeed not have any power over those.
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I didn't realize until now that also Mods deleted topics with other users' posts. That's quite a big mistake.
I would argue that even self-mod threads that Ratimov cleaned out should be restored and locked, if that's not done already.
Not to mention that we've had people banned for less, whereas he's not getting even a slap on the wrist so that's kinda screwed up as far as disincentives to fuck with forum privileges.