I haven't downvoted any of your posts, but it need not be just your opinions -- it may very well be the way you express them, either in terms of expressed hostility, or in terms of confusion/lack of clarity.
e.g. you've still not explained the meaning of the 'should' in "He made his decision - so he should live with it." .
But frankly, I'd wager it's just the constant aura of hostility you seem to exude towards the rest of us.
My perception was that the "retraction" was an attempt to reverse the effect of the original author's note. This is obviously not actually possible. While EY probably knows this, I think he is overestimating the actual benefit of the retraction (and of the related decision to suppress discussion derived from that information in these threads).
The people the retraction is most likely to [arguably] benefit are people who started reading after it was removed and people who were reading it at the time but were inattentive to the author's note and any...
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