> To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. That’s why we temporarily limited usage s

> To ensure the authenticity of our user base we must take extreme measures to remove spam and bots from our platform. That’s why we temporarily limited usage so we could detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors that are harming the platform. Any advance notice on these actions would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection. Ah, so they're intentionally making everybody suffer to punish the bad guys, and promising that everything will be peachy keen afterwards. This sounds essentially identical to the Indian government's justification for suddenly demonetizing the 500 and 1000 rupee notes in 2016, leading to massive cash shortages. This directly led to 1.5M people losing their jobs, a stock market crash, and GDP dropping by at least 1%. The silver lining was that it also kick-started the Indian digital payments system.