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You can hardly say that they switched to a private channel because they knew "that they would get blasted for such a response in a public forum" when the comment they were responding to was the one that suggested the switch to email.

[fieryskiff11]

The comment suggested email for payment, not an extortion accusation (i know accusation is bit too much of a strong word, i couldnt find anything better)

Plus, they did get blasted just because the email was made public. To me, that shows that they wanted a more private channel.