The only issue I see is we lost a great German community as they became collateral damage in the hostilities that double-u continued to escalate. Many left feeling insulted, as their voting culture had been labeled a voting circle. I disagreed with that assessment and said as much in multiple places when it happened.

To clarify, the label was not issued in any form of this needs to stop, it was issued in an attempt to compare their vocalization against VTS to be hypocritical given how much they spent voting among one another. My stance was if we stopped worrying about others stake (VTS or self vote etc) none of this mattered. The comparison I made for the hypocrisy was that double-u was being a hypocrite against VTS when he was self voting himself thousands of Blurt per week. I wish the response could have stayed more direct on him as I was making it.

The person I was closest to here was one of the whales that left, michelangelo3.

I mention all of this to let you know there is probably talk among the German community about this, and while one can easily discount double-u as not being innocent (nor dotwin in my opinion) the rest were and were judged (imo) due to a guilt by association.

If you can help mitigate some of that it would be great. It's a shame that it climaxed as it did, but I find myself being forgiving to megadrive despite losing my closest connection here because he ignored for months growing hostilities directed at himself and VTS users till things blew up. I imagine it had to suck having the pub talk shit about you for so long before it got amplified there at the end.