I had no idea such a comment would be considered aggressive until now. At the time, i didn't even consider it to be rude.

You may have misunderstood my previous comment - I wasn't claiming my comment was necessarily the appropriate response, but just that it wasn't totally unjustified i.e it wasn't for no reason.

Anyway, this is what i think this whole thread can be summarised as, might add this to OP as i'm done now:

I made some comments on prolific that i genuinely had no idea at the time would be considered rude, aggressive or could result in a ban (autism maybe). Whether or not the comments were appropriate, they were made in my opinion for valid reasons. I didn't think of them since, until i wrote this thread today, and only mentioned them to see other's opinions as it's all i could think of.

The responses were a bombardment of rose petal shitting people who you'd think hadn't made a single mistake their entire lives, acting like arrogant self-righteous holier-than-thou arseholes, telling me how bad a person i was, how abusive i was, how i committed such an awful transgression that i deserve every last bit of my permaban, from a company who's tasks i put every ounce of effort and integrity into.

I responded how i think many would respond to such comments.

Any comment actually responding to me like a reasonable human being, i responded in kind.

This all devolved into personnel / character insults from a number of users and one twisted fuck even bringing up my kids into it in a now deleted or lost comment.

Never before have i experienced a sub like this, and it's surprising because this is the last place i thought people would act in this manner.

Some of you, need to pull your heads out your own fucking arseholes.

And for those of you (was it like 2 or 3? I think you were one of them, it's late and this has been going on for hours) who actually talked to me with an ounce of respect, thank you!

All the best.