I think it’s intentional. I don’t want to get into the details but I think people can deduce why they don’t remove his threads but ban anyone who dares ask developers to leave politics out of the game.
In reality this really has the opposite effect they hope to achieve, personally I don’t have anything against people minding their lives and their own personal business but this whole permaban after years of posting and other sitautions I’ve ran across just made me dislike and avoid certain… group.