information, all I could comment is how I moderate the CWE forum.
I don't delete, edit or ban anybody for expressing political views, as long as there are no insults in the message.
If messages contain insults, I rather delete it than edit it.
If there are already many responses to the message containing insults (depending on the severity of insults), I prefer to leave the message along.
if I edit a message, I give an explanation for the edit.
If there are spamming, or deliberate attempt to make reading the forum harder, I delete the messages and ban the offender for 24 hrs.
So far I have never banned anybody for longer than 24 hrs.
However, the other 3 moderators follow slightly different guidelines, but overall we are lucky to have 4 moderators from different backgrounds with similar viewpoints.
By the way at CWE forum, more than two negative posts by the same individual directed to the same country is considered spam by all 4 moderators.
Kamil