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I did not accuse them of astroturfing, shilling, being a bot, brigading, or being a foreign agent.

I said they were a sock puppet account created three minutes before leaving their one and only comment as a reply to my own. These claims are verifiable, and their behavior lowers the standard of discourse in this forum.

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Just because their account was created for this comment, does not mean the comment itself is worth disregarding. Throwaway accounts exist for many reasons.

You can address their point and move on. Leveling accusations unrelated to the point lowers the standard of discourse too.

edit: to add to this, the claim that this is a sockpuppet is not a verifiable claim.

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