I hate to hijack this post

I've applied a 100% downvote from my own account on the automated comment, so hopefully that concern is mitigated.

As you can appreciate I was very upset when I saw this message, and no one in their right mind won't be.

Agreed. I was upset to see it, too.

thank you for responding

Thank you for the same. I agree that it's a regrettable situation. You are right that auto-comments are programmed by humans. More specifically, this one was programmed by me... at a time long before the war, when I still naively believed this kind of atrocity was unthinkable.

I understand that you feel that these comments in general are harsh and unnecessary. We respectfully disagree. They're supposed to be a deterrent. They're the strongest nonviolent statement we can make at Curangel, that we oppose liquefaction services and the abuse they enable. It is nothing personal against any author. It is disincentivation of a loophole which is ripe for abuse.

Let me be clear, because I used the word "abuse." I am absolutely not accusing everyone who uses liquefaction services of being an abuser. I am not even calling those who provide such services abusers. But I do believe that the existence of these services is a cancer, much like the old for-profit bidbots of the Steem era, and we fight it with what we have, and unfortunately today a very cold message was sent because code doesn't have a heart to feel with, or a mind to reason with.