As an adult I'm quite happy to put my trust in the moderators.

Do you also think that as an adult you are unable to be left to decide for yourself what to read, respond to or ignore? And why would you place your trust in someone to this for you, especially someone who does not trust you enough to stand by their actions with a name?

I don't want to have to wade through reams of spam to find something that makes sense.

Spam is not the issue - is it, we all know what it is and how to deal with the little that may get through our automatic filters.

As for deletions being personally motivated you've been assured time and again that that is not the case. I suspect you're forgetting to hit the submit button half the time, I really do think the moderators have got better things to do than delete your posts immediately you make them as you've implied in the past. I don't believe your 'silently deleted posts' are even getting to the website. After all, we've no way of knowing that you made those posts.

Paul- What would be the point of me maintaining to our forum that 'silently deleting' posts was happening when it was not - especially when our 'moderators' are not denying it?

But the points you make here are exactly the reason why the request is now being made - that all cases where any form of imposed editing action has been judged necessary is always indicated by an editing comment to that effect and that all editing comments are limited to where some form of editing action has been imposed.

Then should a post not appear and no editing comment to explain its non-apperance (or closure) - all posters will know they have made a mistake or the site was not functioning. And our forum would then be able to judge (by seeing all of these editing comments) the true nature and current level of censorship and be able for the first time to make an informed opinion on this.