What a strange coincidence that it was an unprogressive fellow that got booted. That's as much evidence for my thesis as against.

In what universe? Are you claiming that Eugine got booted by what? The evil cabal of moderators who want to push left-wing politics?

But if you want, I'll make a fun related prediction: Within 3 months you'll agree with me that AA has been violating community norms. What do you want to bet on that?

Second: Ah, so AA saying that people should attend to their game is being "overly political". Seems a stretch. I guess for some people everything is political, but if so, complaining that a post is political makes little sense.

Don't be daft. Making claims like he did falls flatly into PUA and neoreactionary claims. Moreover, the phrasing was political.

Third: I thought voting a person down was a no no. That was what made Eugine's downvoting a crime

No. The problem with Eugine was he was a) repeatedly downvoting people's comments which had nothing to do with anything to do with politics or controversial issues. For crying out loud, he was downvoting meetup announcements posted by people. b) he was using sockpuppets to get the karma to do it. (Note that for example, I've downvoted two of advanceatheist's recent comments but not most of them, and upvoted one of the less political ones).

Your certainty is misplaced. I was involved in exactly the kind of case you posit, where someone basically cast conservatives as in league with Lucifer, and he was upvoted to the moon. When I called him on it, I was downvoted to oblivion.

Link?

As for the quality, it was the clear expression of an idea relevant to winning that you don't hear so often.

Really? I could imagine much clearer and much more steelmanned, and frankly more interesting versions of the same idea. I can easily supply them if you want.

It's political to suggest that your interpersonal skills have a large effect on your life, so you should see about getting good at them? We shouldn't talk about interpersonal skills?

No. But it is politics to claim that interpersonal skills are intrinsically involved in issues of sex and gender, that those issues always come up in the way that he described and the like.