[Reposting my previous comment without linking to the specific thread in question:]
I don’t understand the implied connection to “censorious” or “culture”. You had a prolonged comment thread/discussion/dispute (I didn’t read it) with one individual author, and they got annoyed at some point and essentially blocked you. Setting aside both the tone and the veracity of their justifying statements (<quotes removed>), disengaging from unpleasant interactions with other users is normal and pretty unobjectionable, right?
(Thanks for reposting without the link/quotes. I added back the karma your comment had, as best as I could.)
Previously, the normal way to disengage was to just disengage, or to say that one is disengaging and then stop responding, not to suddenly ban someone without warning based on one thread. I do not recall seeing a ban previously that wasn’t based on some long term pattern of behavior.
[Reposting my previous comment without linking to the specific thread in question:]
I don’t understand the implied connection to “censorious” or “culture”. You had a prolonged comment thread/discussion/dispute (I didn’t read it) with one individual author, and they got annoyed at some point and essentially blocked you. Setting aside both the tone and the veracity of their justifying statements (<quotes removed>), disengaging from unpleasant interactions with other users is normal and pretty unobjectionable, right?
(Thanks for reposting without the link/quotes. I added back the karma your comment had, as best as I could.) Previously, the normal way to disengage was to just disengage, or to say that one is disengaging and then stop responding, not to suddenly ban someone without warning based on one thread. I do not recall seeing a ban previously that wasn’t based on some long term pattern of behavior.