I'd like to clarify our position on this kind of thing to keep things from becoming unpleasant in both our relationship with you, the community, and our relationship with Mozilla:

I was contacted by Mozilla with the request to "police" our forum, since we (Pale Moon devs) are in direct control of the things discussed and posted here.

Pale Moon , the browser forked from Firefox that is popular with some Soylentils, was recently contacted by Mozilla, according to one of the developers:

Those who are aware of the existence and goals of Pale Moon may have realized that there was a big nosedive in positive opinions of Firefox from both the Pale Moon maker and community when Mozilla changed their UX to Australis. To date, there has been bad blood from Pale Moon community members in comments and forum posts that are dismissive of Mozilla, sometimes provocatively so. But still, Mozilla seems to have had a real problem with the Pale Moon guys lately, and now appear to have demanded stricter moderation of the Pale Moon forums so that only favorable posts about Mozilla are published, or none at all.

This was not the only attack from Mozilla's side lately. For example, this [edit: former] Mozilla employee mocking attempts to re-base Pale Moon and remove Australis, or as seen here where Mozilla guy Robert Kaiser accused the Pale Moon project of "destroying code and extorting money".

The point is: Whether there are some rude comments by community members on a certain board or not, it seems like Mozilla employees are getting incredibly nervous because of their current peculiar state and are now unleashing their frustrations at the Pale Moon project. It also looks like Mozilla has a growing animosity towards people taking and modifying the Mozilla source code for their own unique products, and they are also trying to get rid of projects which have been hosted and supported by Mozilla itself. If you are a big developer, one can argue that you should stand above incidents like that, but Mozilla's dwindling market share is putting them under heavier stress.

In conclusion, users hope that Mozilla stops their current quest to copy Google Chrome and move back in the direction of serving a tech-savvy user group which could allow them to regain a larger market share. Mozilla should also maintain healthier relationships with projects like Seamonkey and Thunderbird, which may lose users when Mozilla changes the user experience to be more Chrome-inspired. Time is ticking and projects like Tofino add to the uncertainty about the future of Firefox (Servo or Blink engine?), including the upcoming removal of XUL and the deprecation of the old add-on and theme model. These moves are not helpful in restoring user faith in Mozilla and Firefox.

Hopefully Mozilla gets out of their downwards spiral soon. The web does still need Mozilla, but not as weak, uncertain and unnerved as they are right now.

Update: The Pale Moon developer named Al Billings as the Mozilla employee who contacted him (submission).