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Why are so afraid to reveal the name and institution?


Their username is publicly linked to their real-life identity. Revealing the name and institution has a reasonable chance of provoking a potentially messy dispute in real life. Maybe eob has justice on their side, but picking fights has a lot of downsides, especially if your evidence is secondhand.




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