Dice.com Censorship

As a long time Dice.com user, I can say that the dice.com discussion boards were a nice place to discuss technology news and critical topics relevant to technology folks like myself.

Well, those good old days are over. As anyone else currently on the Dice boards can attest to, the administrators have instituted a new censorship policy. When one searches for "Dice Censorship" in the engines, they will find protests going on in the Dice discussion boards, however since these are hosted at Dice, these threads are deleted.

As can still be seen in their message archives, they used to tolerate a great deal of criticism in the interests of an open discussion. However it seems that sometime in 2011, the Dice moderators began implementing an unspoken policy of discouraging or disallowing all threads which were critical of Dice. Many of these posts were not otherwise abusive (and did not actually violate the board's terms and conditions). They were deleted simply because Dice found them disagreeable.

Dice are free to do as they please, even if deleting posts which do not violate their terms is dishonest. Unfortunately however, their new found fondness of discussion censorship brings into question the very integrity of the discussion board for its users. Are the remaining posts and threads a genuine reflection of user opinions? How can our community form a meaningful consensus when not all our posts are present?

So, to all those who've had their voices squelched by the overzealous moderators  over at dice.com, please share your experiences here.

Also, new links to other message boards for technology & employment are welcome.