I don't "blame" the mods but it's not a great thing they're doing by suppressing this. But I understand why they do it.
"Thought policing" has been coming through American culture (and perhaps others) in the last few years, and unfortunately this is the latest incarnation of it.
A "code of conduct" where a ban hammer would come down on you because of a perceived threat or non-politically correct comment is disagreed with is a really dangerous policy under the guise of "protection."
Apparently some random person's made a negative remark about transgender individuals on his Twitter account, that account was linked to a github account by some other random person in a github project discussion (the other person reported this as an "issue" with the project, rather than confronting the person he / she disagreed with directly.)
This discussion spiraled completely out of control, brought a lot of bad press to the project (which had nothing to do with the comment), and inspired someone at github to create a "code of conduct."
And basically github can pull your account or projects if someone makes a convincing argument that you're threatening them because say you like a certain politician on Twitter or post a provocative photo of yourself on Facebook or use a curse word or God knows what else.
Why I say I understand the mods but disagree:
What would you do in this situation, where the debate is framed as "people are threatening each other," and the other side are saying, "you're full of shit," and the first side says, "but what? People are being threatened? Are you a monster?!"
Shit, I'd pull the thread too in that case, not to suppress a logical argument but to get the rabid foaming at the mouth debate out of the sub.
You've gotta hand it to the "social justice warriors" in recent years, they're selling thought policing very well, and the other side who is against thought policing isn't truly capable of selling their side well--
My opinion, this seems to be a "fear uncertainty and doubt" approach by people who have waaaay too much time on their hands, starting fires and blaming others while the other side is just trying to work?
How do you deal with this? How can you work when you have a "screaming victim" who is making up things pointing at you and your coworkers / contributors and yelling as loudly (to get their way) as they can to the police who aren't paying much attention to the facts?