Are moderators now censoring unfavorable, even if respectful and helpful, posts criticing Mozilla's "rapid release" approach?

Several of my posts have vanished off of threads, recently, despite not having any rude, profane or baseless content.
I have been vocal about not liking the "rapid release" approach, by Mozilla, as I feel it's introducing bugs and problems faster than it's fixing them, but my posts have been intended to be helpful and recommend that people roll back their FireFox versions to functional ones, as well as request Mozilla to get back to the basics, which mean producing a great product with sensible updates.
I would hate to think that CENSORSHIP is now the Mozilla approach, in these boards, for anything which dares criticize their update policies.
After all, I've been a long-time Firefox supporter. The surest way to lose supporters, though, is to CENSOR what they have to say.
Has anyone else had this problem?

I hate when people use the word Gestapo to refer to moderating a forum. Let's not cheapen the suffering of the German people or make our little support board out to be more important than it is. This is just one forum in a world is full of forums.Not only is this just one forum, its purpose is narrow: to answer support questions. It is not primarily a suggestion board or debating society, and has only the most indirect relationship with the direction of Firefox development. To me, the main point is to answer the poster's question. In most cases, that's why the user asked, and that's why the contributors replied.
If you feel strongly that a user's problem is best addressed by rolling back to an earlier version of Firefox, I think you should keep making that suggestion (but perhaps only once or twice per thread). Specific is better than general, e.g., roll back because an add-on or website only works with particular versions. As a matter of style, if you search my username with the word rollback, you will see I've given detailed instructions many times; I think that helps reduce the potential for error and data loss.
However you choose to do it, we are all under the watchful eye of the moderators/administrators, to make sure we are fulfilling this site's mission of providing good support. In some cases, that may involve trimming off repetitive or unhelpful posts. I don't think that's going to change, no matter how many bad names we might call it.

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