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The FAQs also say a mod can remove the flag if it's unfair...which it is. Yet it hasn't been removed.

Ok, I've removed it. Now people will accuse us of rewriting history, but that's ok - one eventually makes peace with the fact that there's no way to win.

Yeah, but at least you rewrote it to something I agree with

danged if you do, danged if you don't

The truth is that the pig partly likes it.

Had to look that up, glad I did

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/08/pig/

They now would be tagged as [dupe] and still removed.

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