I think that other user was me.
I don’t believe I replied to the off topic comments but my account was also silenced for two weeks. It was not obvious to me how to appeal the silencing either, so I reached out to you about it for an explanation since I remembered that statement you made about how people should flag posts more often and avoid engaging. I never received a reply. I attempted to reach out to the moderator team, which the site did not let me do. So rather than trying to guess who I should message, I just decided to wait out my sentence.
All this to say another issue is the appeal process and knowing who to reach out to. You receive a message from the automated system with an incredibly vague explanation but that’s pretty much it. The format @TinFoilHat describes sounds like a major improvement.
Needless to say I rarely flag posts now. Why should I go out of my way to help the mods in good faith if I risk being punished for doing so?
I do appreciate the (eventual) explanation from Jonah though that it is not necessary to flag more than one off topic comment in a given thread. I agree this should be in writing somewhere.