If your intention isn't to attack others, that's great—but in that case the burden is on you to express your intention more clearly.

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If you can't or won't do that, we're going to have to ban you, even if you're right that your comments are perfectly innocent and everyone else is just reading them wrong. That's because we have to go by how these things affect the threads. If you post things that look like trollish swipes, and feel like trollish swipes, they're guaranteed to have the effect of trollish swipes. There isn't much difference between arson and negligence if the goal is not to have the house burn down.

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