I understand what you’re saying and for someone who is not aware of what comments were removed or how many of them. I can understand that you might infer your “sides” opinion is being oppressed.
However, there were no silencing of opinions. The topic is about a game that features AI. Masturb...chat For twenty comments there were debates about the use of AI. Arguing for or against the use of AI in a topic that features AI. More than twenty comments about the same off topic issue does nothing further than to derail the topic even further. If the topic was about the use of AI and the discussion was civil there would be no need to moderate anything. However, the topic was for a project being developed that use AI images.
The fact that the discussion was allow to go on for as long as it did and that there are comments “on both sides” that are left up should give you an idea that the problem is not the content being said but the fact that it was still going on. We remove off topic comments all the time. And as I stated if a topic on the matter is made as long as it falls within our community guidelines and remains civil there would be no issue.
The fact of it being AI is not different than if it was another medium or source of off topic. While I don’t like to shut down healthy discussion the fact of the matter is people get charged about the topic of AI and allowing further discussion in that thread only hurts user experience for someone coming to get info and have discussions about the game at hand.
The reason your comment specifically was being removed when you kept re pasting it multiple times was because I was in the middle of addressing the issue directly to ask for a stop of further off topic discussion, as I did not have time to do it earlier since this morning. And as such I had been removing any further comments on the AI debate in that game topic since this morning.
I appreciate you taking the time to make a thread on the matter and hope you can understand the issue at hand.