This thread will also be shut down, because they don't allow us to discuss the actions they take on here even though the actions they take on here affect us directly, and when those actions egregiously bad, we, their customers, have no right to discuss amongst ourselves the impact that bad moderation has on our community.

Which is really too bad, OP, because you're absolutely right on this one. And, in my very-strongly-held opinion, there is literally no argument to be made that supports the reasons given to shut that thread down. Making a guess based on one's own insight and asking if that guess might be valid is, in no way at all, conspiracy theorizing. Nor is asking for thoughts on one's hypothesis "spreading misinformation."

Do I think ichsuisme is correct? Probably not. I doubt the craft bag has enough data, even at scale, to cause the problems, and the worst lag happens in combat, not during looting. However, issues with our banks causing long delays have occurred in the past, so I don't think we can just rule it out out of hand, at least as a contributing factor.

We certainly, from any place of honestly, can't call just asking the question a conspiracy or "spreading misinformation," and I'm frankly really disappointed that this happened.