Why did the mods shut down comments on a post about a possible new courthouse?

[u/Professional-Sir-912]

The mods commented it was because the post was determined to be a duplicate thread, but the only duplication I could find was a post referencing a paywalled al.com article that died on the vine, with no actual discussion of the project at hand. This subject matter deserves a robust debate!

[u/ShaggyTDawg]

9 times out of 10, there's a stickied comment explaining.

Also note... The post that got deleted was even by another mod (sometimes we don't even notice when something was previously posted)

Edit: to clarify, the paywalled link that OP is referencing is the same link that was taken down. We don't need two posts to the same link. Have the "robust conversation" on the first post rather than a disorganized conversation scattered across two posts.

[u/addywoot → u/[deleted]]

I’ve noticed a lot of the complaints about consistency are when content hasn’t been caught or removed yet. There’s a baked in assumption that we do nothing but look at Reddit in our personal lives and any mistake is malicious and/or intentional.

Any time you have perceived authority, there are people that will find fault or purposefully look for fault. Since we do have a very lenient culture by choice, I don’t take people who make passive aggressive comments seriously.

[u/addywoot → u/[deleted]]

New account that has spent their social media time being insulting and toxic. This tracks. And given your phrasing, you’ve been banned here before hence the new account. Also tracks.

Being toxic is its own power trip that you seem to need. Why?