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by makomk 2810 days ago
While I guess there are arguments for not banning users just because they have a whole bunch of nasty accusations against them, or for requiring high standards of evidence to do so, that wasn't the actual justification from what I can tell. (Indeed, I think arguing that rape accusations shouldn't automatically be believed is probably a bannable offence on all the instances involved.) It's more like they don't think community insiders should be held to the same standards as other people, and reckon any outsiders who do so are so obviously in the wrong as to justify banning the entire instance.