@Chocolate From what I remember, Kentaro deleted his ELL account because of a dispute related to a post that spilled over to meta. It wasn't all Kentaro's fault
A user said some things that annoyed Kentaro.
Those things shouldn't have been said to anyone. Kentaro just didn't take it really well.
Actually, this morning when I woke up to 3 downvotes on this site, and then I saw that meta post and another meta post on ELL, I realized what'd happened. Also some not-so-nice comments were left under some questions.
@naruto I don't know if it is a good thing that I think I know who そちら is. As a newly active member here, I don't know what happened in the past. I hope whatever happened will be put behind them. My biggest hope is for the site to prosper. Good questions and good answers and more native speakers and more linguists がどんどん来てくれますように!
@naruto Agreed. Same goes for other SE sites. After a while on SE, I can't stomach sites like Quora that are fraught with plain wrong answers and misleading information
japanese.stackexchange.com/q/84383/16104 I still didn’t accept this answer because given the History of the user who answered It, I’m not sure if I can trust it or not. I wonder if I should put a bounty on it, and how much would be acceptable.
@EddieKal, @naruto, @Chocolate, thank you for explaining the context and background. That's unfortunate. Given the apparent facts, I'm saddened but not in disagreement with the decision to block.
I'm also active over at Wiktionary, and the wiki format means there is more history and more discussions visible when things like this happen. Thankfully, such events are rare both there and here.
Separately, agreed re: 知恵袋, Quora, etc. Sometimes the ベストアンサー is ... just wrong, and it seems like there's no way of rectifying those. Ah, well -- that's partly why I'm here and not there. :)
Btw, I thought the product of yesterday's downvoting spree would've been reversed. But the three downvotes on my answers are still there. I know it could be someone other than Kentaro or even different people that cast the downvotes that were minutes apart. And just to make it clear I don't really mind them, because I myself acknowledge the flaws in my answers. And I am actually still hoping to improve one of them.
But just in case it was the same user that also downvoted a bunch of other posts, I am curious why some of the votes seem to have been reversed but not all. I remember seeing three questions downvoted yesterday with comments from Kentaro. Later when the comments were removed, the downvotes also disappeared with them.