EarlG, would it be possible to automate a DU mail to be sent out to anyone who gets 3 posts hidden

[EarlG]

8. Except that's not what happened

If the post in question is a 2017 post called "Unofficial celebratory Russian troll bagging thread since we can't post to removed threads," -- since that is the only removed post by rzemanfl that I can find which has anything to do with Russian trolls -- that post was removed because it was an OP celebrating another DU member getting a post removed, which is a clear personal attack.

The fact that the member in question was banned -- three years later -- had nothing to do with the fact that
rzemanfl's post was a rule violation.

And rzemanfl's post was alerted on by a regular DU member who is still an active member, not a Russian troll.

And this is why we don't let people talk about removed posts on DU, because when people who get posts removed tell the story of what happened, it's amazing how often the story makes them look good, while other people -- or DU itself -- are the ones to blame. And that leads to other people believing the untrue version, which makes them think there must be something wrong with the system. When in fact it worked exactly as intended.

Now I've cleared that up, I'm locking this thread, because I need to go work on the latest DU patch rather than spend the rest of my afternoon arguing about this.