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What I would normally expect in online forums is for a critical post to stay up, and if another person expressed unhappiness for that to change nothing, and for this to result in less engagement or to persist as ongoing acrimony which might spill over into other posts. Purely selfishly, I don't like seeing those kinds of things happen; as a consequence my engagement would tend to decrease.

From only seeing your retraction, I can update in favor of that not happening and instead have a soft assumption that similar interactions are being handled, and if I see one that isn't it is probably an exception and not the rule, which addresses my selfish concerns. Further, it increases my confidence that you and Ozy will both continue to write and therefore I expect good contributors to be preserved going forward.

Since we are less likely to lose good contributors over time, and through that lose passive observers over time (insofar as I am a stand-in), it increases my confidence in the long-term health of the community.

Maintaining good will takes challenging maintenance work, I think this qualifies, and I wanted to recognize it.