Two faced dice moderators

"Please remember to keep your discussion polite, thank you."

"There is no problem with you expressing your dissent."

- lesleyp Dice.com moderator

Seems nice enough, right? Here's the thing, though the Dice moderators appear to be nice enough in public, their true nature only shows up in private messages with warnings and termination threats. She posted the above  after censoring countless legitimate dissenting threads throughout the preceding week. Any mention of the fact that censorship occurred is deleted and at a minimum the user receives a warning.

What is troubling is that while Dice is steering the discussions through censorship and threats, their public facing side denies that censorship occurs or pretends the reason is something other than dissent. Before 2011, the moderation was generally constrained to abusive posters, since that time more and more posters are at the receiving end of moderator warnings simply for posting dissenting opinions.