I think you're the telling the truth.

Now I'm going to tell you why I did all of this. I want to pursue every suspect. From a non-whale point of view, most whales look like the same to me. Bidbots. Autovotes. So how am I going to tell apart the assholes from the people I should be respecting? By doing what I did to you.

So I'm sorry for the downvotes, which I'm going to retract now (not like I think they're meaningful in value but that's not the point), and I'm sorry for harassing you.

I am extremely glad I can take you off the list of people I should be after. Now I'll start chasing the next one.