WITHOUT commenting on the Silverback affair per se, would it maybe be a good idea to notify every temp-blocked user of the current technical issues as regards unblocking?
I'm just thinking that telling people in advance that, yes there's a known problem, no it's not meant to humiliate them, yes it does affect everybody who's currently getting blocked -- that extra bit of info may reassure folks a bit and might just prevent some peeps from going over the edge.
Or is that already being done?
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