tl;dr The two wanks are the same wank because the MFD was >50% grudgewank from the start about the previous stance on ship-matching in ToT
Nah. The fact that RedCoyote was a mod of ToT and other exchanges definitely *did* contribute to the wank, but not in the way you're saying it did. It wasn't 75% grudgewank, it was because they were friends with the MFD mods that the situation spiraled out of control in the first place. The mods saw "Friend hurt!" and went fucking nuclear, whereas if it had been Random Participant #238, I doubt it would have even gotten to that point. Personally, I didn't have any clue who RC/VP was before the wank went down other than "oh yeah, they do exchanges, seem to be pinch hits a lot," and definitely didn't know they were PK1, and wanked long and hard on the side of the banned writer. ffa at least was *firmly* on the writer's side long before we were able to follow the breadcrumbs and realize the recip was RC.
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Nah. The fact that RedCoyote was a mod of ToT and other exchanges definitely *did* contribute to the wank, but not in the way you're saying it did. It wasn't 75% grudgewank, it was because they were friends with the MFD mods that the situation spiraled out of control in the first place. The mods saw "Friend hurt!" and went fucking nuclear, whereas if it had been Random Participant #238, I doubt it would have even gotten to that point. Personally, I didn't have any clue who RC/VP was before the wank went down other than "oh yeah, they do exchanges, seem to be pinch hits a lot," and definitely didn't know they were PK1, and wanked long and hard on the side of the banned writer. ffa at least was *firmly* on the writer's side long before we were able to follow the breadcrumbs and realize the recip was RC.