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Thanks for the vernacular, Scrubbing and Shadowbanning are so apt a description to this type of conduct. PointClub and American Consumer Opinion used response response scrubbing on long financials and investment surveys I completed some time back. I stopped completing their surveys.

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That's called scrubbing the responses, a form of censorship. There are a lot of survey panels which will scrub the results their respondants provide, so they can promote their sociological and political agenda towards whatever company, charity or government organisation is the client. I'm not surprised given that political correctness has evolved over the past 15-20 years to manifest into cancel culture and censorship in today's society. This problem of survey panels scrubbing responses has become so widespread and common in the market research and Get Paid To industry, that clients have recently started to use multiple survey panels at the same time. I was doing a survey for British Heart Foundation to review their television advertising and I gave a negative opinion on their advert then the Surveybods panel emailed me to say they're not using my responses then I was shadowbanned as I then stopped receiving surveys and my cashout requests were always denied. My answer was not rude or tactless. BHF were using shock tactics in their advert to show internal organs and someone on life support hooked up to a machine in a hospital bed, to try to encourage people not to smoke and eat to much and get fat. The advert also asked the public to donate to their charity for research into cancer and heart conditions. My response in the survey was that it's not the 1990s any more, it's the 2010s, so shock tactics don't work in advertising any more because they've been so often in an overused manner, it's become cliche and stale so we've become desensitised to it. There was a time when swearing on tv was controversial, PETA using half naked bodies of sexualised women to say "I'd rather be naked than wear fur" was controversial, or when a person being murdered in a tv drama that wasn't a horror or action show, like a soap was controversial.