Problem with current affairs

Correct.

I several times offered the mod the freedom of my PM's to 'prove' his allegation.

And I see now Brucie has also demonstrated to the mod the extent of our communications.

Also offered him the oppurtunity to prove the other allegation he made against me and others.

Declined.

I said at the start of my post

"Everyone agrees that we need more mods"

You were not clear that you were referencing something else.

I think everyone did see through it. Whether they were piling in in support of the OP criticising the Admin, or whether they were defending him, they saw clearly what the thread was about, not what it pretended to be about.

I assume you are appealing the forum ban through the Dispute Resolution Process? The facility is there to appeal. You also won't have anyone else allowed to comment.

I didn't...

Eh, the admin never claimed to have knowledge of PMs (or contents of PMs) between 2 posters. This is what he said:

"It is clear to me that a number of posters have been discussing how to challenge moderation behind the scenes. And yes the prime culprits have already posted in this thread backing each other up. I'm pretty confident the pair of them agreed to start this thread in Feedback"

"And just to add, whenever either of them do pick up a sanction or even a nil point warning the Pm exchanges are very lengthy. Typically running to over a dozen messages. They are complete timesinks who believe only their views matter."

"May be unprovable, but when I get a message from one of you confirming they are discussing things with others, and when i look at reports and see the pair of you seem to have similar issues, but never seem to report the same post. Proper little tag team. Of course I would have kept all that to myself but for seeing this thread I am convinced the pair of you cooked up

And TBH your records in that forum are abysmal. Here you go -I will tell you as a site Admin - each of you are close to permanent site bans with those records. You have had enough rope and I am now of the view the pair of you are such time sinks that I am going to ban you the from the forum. It may well appear as a 6 month ban due to limitations on the process .But you can both take them as permanent

You have each received way too much leeway in that forum"

That is what @Beasty said. Nowhere in that does he indicate that he has access to PMs. In fact, he admits that what he says may be unprovable presumably because he doesn't have such access. A whole conspiracy theory has been generated around access to PMs that just isn't there when you read his posts. He formed a reasonable opinion based on the available evidence and acted on it.

It's not in Dispute Resolution, it's here:

Mod refusing to accept they are wrong as a result of lazy moderation. — boards.ie - Now Ye're Talkin'

Note how the mod deals with another request of proof.

P.S. I do not require you to act as barrister for Beasty on that particular appeal to deflect even more. I merely post the link as back-up.

Think it’s time for a ceasefire here, gents. Everyone needs to take a step back, have a deep breath and “chill out”.

These anger levels just aren’t healthy, mentally or physically. Especially if some of you are overweight, or have high blood pressure.

Also, grown men “raging” at each for days on end? It’s not a good look.

You answer PM's with relish with plenty of personal abuse. Will you stop with the 'tirade' 'timesink' stuff.

I can post some of our exchanges and folk can judge for themselves if you are into the back and forth as much as anyone?

Sick to death of you making sanctimonious claims about yourself, it amounts to victimhood. Others have had the same experience with you as me. Own it.

And while you are at it, how about some proof of your allegations.

Now I'm imagining Beasty doing a Jack Nicolson in A Few Good Men...