"Can't allege" is an oxymoron.

Please don't insinuate astroturfing in comment threads. If you think you're seeing abuse, email us at [email protected] so we can investigate. We ban accounts when we find evidence of abuse (I've banned that one), but just dropping a comment in the thread makes it unlikely that we'll ever see it. It also poisons discussion in the case where the insinuation wrong, which is far more common.

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