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Why this is not automatically killed by bot? But the other reasonable comment by "notsureaboutpg" was? The bot is stupid.

One account is banned and the other not. There's no bot trying to decide what comments are "reasonable"—that would indeed be stupid.

Thanks for your response. I thought the one line offensive response would be easily picked by the bot. But of course I don't know how the bot works.

There is no bot, according to the moderator you're responding to.

There's software, which is probably what temp8964 meant by "bot".