Cool Hand Luke wrote
All of this is completely baffling to me.
But we can't ban someone for making "bad votes", even if they _are_ misleading editors, right?
I could speculate on the motivation of someone who had a beef about 'soft' content, and also wished to make a point about the lack of rigour in attending to the validity of supposed 'hard' content.
Sticking to the facts, defending hoax material knowingly is a pretty serious charge. It is also an attack on the Assume Good Faith principle, if the motivation is to create more of a climate of suspicion. I say that this is one of the things the community in no way needs.
Charles