[2023] Psyonix have silently reset reactions on the trade removal announcement on the official RL Discord to censor backlash

Hi, no, we did not manually reset reactions on the trading removal announcement. We do not reset reactions on announcements in the server based on how an announcement is received.

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This is what the reaction count looks like to me right now. I know Discord (the app, not just our server) went down temporarily yesterday for some users and some servers, which is the likely culprit here, and Discord as a platform in general isn't always stable when it comes to tracking a large number of reactions to a post or announcement.

So you know that community hates that change, then why go through with it?

I don't have anything to add or follow up on after the change we announced on Tuesday, just pushing back against a conspiracy theory here, sorry.

Considering only the negative reactions conveniently were removed, I’m hard pressed to believe this. I’m sorry but you guys lost the community’s trust.

APIs mess up sometimes and not all data can be accounted for. We didn't remove any reactions. EDIT: This started about an hour after our announcement went out.

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He was most likely the one who put the first of those reactions there (since regular members can’t add new ones)

Exactly. I dropped in the skull, thumbs up, and thumbs down. Only admins and a few other roles with elevated privs can add reactions to announcements in the RL server.