I see. So the problem is you put a topic into permanent slow mode, which led to the community misunderstanding things. You kinda bured the lede on this one, my friend. You should have opened your question with:
We put a topic in permanent slow mode, and…
but instead, you said
This says “when we turned on”, not “when we intentionally left a topic in a permanent state of slow”. Nor did you explain this in your subsequent reply, either. 
I’ll need to think about this use case; permanent slow mode wasn’t something we really designed for.