I have an excellent idea of what did and didn't happen when I was personally involved on several occasions.
I've also seen a number of situations develop on the screen in front of me where other people were involved, and I only observed. In other cases some members were kind enough to inform me about what was happening. Not everything that's deleted on the forum is actually deleted, some quickly deleted posts do make it into email notifications.
Does this mean I know everything that's going on, on here all the time? No of course not, I'm not privy to deleted threads and logs, nor am I subscribed to all, or to receive notifications on every post. All I can base my conclusions on are the facts that are available to me.
From these facts I draw conclusions when certain inconsistencies occur very consistently, especially when the same exact elements are involved.
For example if the same drunk keeps starting fights at a bar, time and again, and the bouncers keep letting him back in, night after night, perhaps there is something more to the situation? After all they kicked out plenty of other unruly drunks?
Maybe they feel bad for the guy, or the guy has something on them, or they just think it's funny when he starts up fights. I mean so long as he doesn't attack them, who cares right?. So who can know?
Certainly not the regular patrons who just enjoy having a drink and chatting with their fellows peacefully.