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[pbae]

Nah, it was overdue, and this provides an impetus to execute a purge which would have been hard to do before. Never let a crisis go to waste.

[boringuser2 → pbae]

It's a bad look, though, to be punitive in the face of protests.

If they had simply terminated the mods prior to this, well, they both wouldn't have actually had a problem to begin with, and could have easily chalked the whole thing up to a push to be more "open".