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Damn what a completely out of touch response. Many people point out that this was basically a badly handled abuse report that a user brought to a main thread instead of reporting, however that does not and never did justify the original and continued ban of the first person to report on it.
I am especially galled by the "and ad hominem attacks on another user (even if it turned out they deserved it)." bit. Dude, maybe someone's motivations matter. Acting like attacking someone's motivations are always out of place is part of what lets this kind of shit fester and grow. Everyone has motivations, and a lot of people's motivations are deeply unsavory.
Bruh my Kubuntu minimal install. Welp. *sigh que sera sera, we all move on sometime.
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