Dear Moderator,
1) The definition of ‘moderator,’ at least according to Merriam Webster, is “one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion.” It is NOT an invitation to inject your own opinion. If you wish to do that, approve the comment and then add a comment of your own afterward. It is bad enough that this site enforces anonymity, enabling people to leave nasty and hurtful messages without fear of reprisal. But for a moderator to hide his identity even by concealing his own YWN username is highly suspect and inappropriate.
2) The YWN rules for the Coffee Room (see http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/rules-of-the-ywn-coffee-room-please-read) are very clear that hateful posts are prohibited “no matter how right you think you are,” loshon horah is prohibited, and demeaning Torah is prohibited. Your thoughts, or others’ thoughts of the Torah-related or non-Torah-related positions of any rabbonim, whether it be FinkOrSwim or Rabbi Riskin, have no place in this forum. You are certainly welcome within those rules to quote their opinions and debate them on the merits, but the ad hominem attacks are totally inappropriate and they should be removed by moderators.
3) As to your comment that YWN doesn’t endorse FinkOrSwim’s shiur, it shouldn’t be endorsing anyone’s shiur, but certainly shouldn’t make lack of such endorsement look like a proscription, the way you did.
4) As to your comment removing the link because “I changed my mind about the links,” that too is inappropriate. You are representing the YWN organization, and, as such, are not an “I.” If you want to hide behind the rule which states that outside links may be permitted at the discretion of the moderators (see site linked above, an internal link which is permitted by the rules), by all means, say that the decision has been reversed. But based on all the above invective, it is clear that you are bowing to pressure and/or have low personal opinion of FinkOrSwim’s site. Be honest and say so. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence can search for him online. But the way you did it is inappropriate.
I signed my number to the original post. -95