It's probably a "preventative spam protection maneuver". The fucked up part is that the admin and the staff work with SRS, and almost certainly knew this was coming. Members of SRS just happened to be appointed as moderators it just in time to shut down anyone who tried to call out the manufactured consensus of upvote and downvote brigades that control this site.  SRS/SoapBox-Ban-Hammer are the same fuckin' group, and they come out in droves to claim, "LOL, BRO, IT'S JUST SATIRE WHEN YOU GET TWENTY DOWNVOTES IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES WHEN THERE'S ONLY TEN PEOPLE ON THE SITE!" They're also liable to project, and call anyone critical of them to be the same user. This serves to try and downplay and minimalize the people who have caught on to their tactics. Many an OG voater has been harassed off the site, and many have been doxxed by them. In before this thread is banned, again, because the mod doesn't want people talking about this.