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Apparently Twitter's Report Button Is For Personal Grievances

 So I'm suspended off Twitter for a week. Why?   I got into a battle with a checkmark. The elders among us will recognize this as the sigil of a relentless and dangerous enemy.   Apparently, I've made 'hateful comments' and I need to be 'punished.' And despite the fact that I've definitely said some questionable things on Twitter, there wasn't a hateful thing in this reply. However what I was replying to on the other hand -  "Let's vote them into oblivion." definitely isn't a loving statement.   The way Twitter's report function works is that if enough people report your Tweet for hateful content, then they'll flag it and demand you delete it. Regardless of whether it's actually hateful. I'm guessing the boys in this guy's replies didn't feel like fighting fair today, because not even two minutes later I got hit with this.    And the reason they stated I was being suspended is because they don't allow target