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You haven't really paid attention, I guess.

Entire trees of invitees, going back months and years, are pruned. Mercilessly, indiscriminately, and self-servingly for the few people privileged enough that they are above suspicion. And if you're unlucky to be on the wrong side of it, there's nothing like an appeals process.

>and doesn't abuse the invite system

That's wild.

>When things go bad, it's usually not because of malice,

I never said it was malice. It's because the system itself is pathologically flawed and there's no way to make it work.

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