Once upon a time, people overseeing web forums used to have the ability to move posts, split topics, and even shunt comment chains into other, exising posts.

You are perfectly right about this. However the times, or at least the environment have changed. I trusted most web forum moderators for acting in good faith, one or two orders of magnitude more than any Reddit (or now Lemmy) moderator…

Please be less agressive when expressing disagreement.

On the contrary, I am glad that someone finally gets to calls you, your two-faced clique, and your manipulations for what you are.