## Reporting abuse

To answer your question, [What recourse do I have if I believe a moderator has abused his/her privileges?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/28869/139866) describes how to report it.

Personally I've never tried to "report abuse".

## Lineages

I hope/expect it's wrong to assume that questions are closed because of "not so mainstream lineages".

It's more likely to be ordinary close reasons, "unclear what you're asking", "off-topic", "subjective", "too broad": reasons why a question might be impossible to answer accurately on a StackExchange Q+A site.

## Using chat

On other StackExchange sites I've seen, people (including at least one moderator) use a site's Chat room. A moderator might be lurking in the chat room (or have visited the chat room recently enough that you can @tag them there). If there's a moderator decision or comment which I don't understand, I might post a message in the chat room, hoping/expecting that a moderator will see me post in chat, and discuss/explain the decision.

As a result of using the chat room and using meta (on other sites), for discussions over weeks and months, even if I (still) don't agree with 100% of the moderator decisions, at least I understand them better now, know that I'm not 100% correct either, and that when they disagree with me that's not "moderator abuse".

However, people (including moderators) on this site don't seem to use [the chat room on this site](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/15162/buddhism). Maybe it would help if they did (it's good to "chat", when you can't "see" the people you're working with). Or maybe it's not worth their while, I don't know. I'm grateful people even take time to be here on the main site.

## Private chat

Instead of using a public chat room, moderators are also able to initiate a private chat if they think that's necessary.

## Using meta

Alternatively you can discuss specific questions on meta: ask whether a question on-topic, whether it should be asked, whether it can be answered, whether and how to improve it. Use the [tag:specific-question] tag on meta, for meta-topics whose subject is a single/specific question on the main site.

Moderators are, to some extent, here to enforce the rules and standards expressed/chosen by the community. And Meta is a place where people ("community members") can discuss specific questions.