Yes, we turned off the flags from your account at some point. Most probably this is because they seemed politically motivated. Of course we can't know this for sure, but when accounts seem largely to be flagging for political reasons, we tend to make the flags not count. We do this, btw, regardless of the political position they seem to be coming from.
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I did. That's how I know my account is shadow-restricted because I didn't flag equal numbers of posts from all political sides - they told me so.
Doesn't matter if some political sides generate a lot more flaggable posts - still have to flag equal numbers.
That's not what I said, and I think it's pretty dodgy to abuse email conversation in this way.
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