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It was in response to this comment:

"The real issue here that people don't seem to want to face is the WHY."

They provided an answer to "why?". I think thats fair. Maybe I am wrong. I checked further on the comment history, it appears to me someone has it out for this person, as the other topics are not soapboxing at all, and most or dead without comments.

Care to discuss further?

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Upon second reading, I misinterpreted GP and I don’t think they had any bad intent. So apologies to them for that.

As for the shadowbanning I’m not sure either. It’s not particularly new and like you kinda mentioned they don’t really say anything egregious, at least that I saw. Some accounts seems to be shadow banned at creations and the user doesn’t seem super active, but I’m not sure how all that works under the hood. I guess it’s even possible the GP comment was already dead, and was later vouched.

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