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Suggesting changes to the website was not a problem. Trying to mobilize Twitter mob against a person that declined your suggestion was a problem.

by kjksf 6y ago

baddox 6y ago
I don't see any attempt to mobilize a Twitter mob against a person, unless you just consider all disagreements on Twitter to inherently imply a desire for a Twitter mob to come to your side.
- scarmig 6y ago
  Imagine someone went to Gab (or whatever the right wing mob platform du jour is) and denounced a colleague and published their contact info on it. There's no explicit call to contact or harass the person. Is this appropriate?
  - baddox 6y ago
    I’m not too familiar with Gab, but are you implying that Twitter is exclusively a platform for left wing mobs? If so, you are mistaken, and this coarse impression of what Twitter is should not be projected onto every single tweet.
    - scarmig 6y ago
      Twitter is a platform for mobs of every sort, and if you have a mob of followers and you attack a colleague, publishing his contact info, you are de facto encouraging the mob to attack him, even if you play dumb after the fact.
      - baddox 6y ago
        There was no attack on a colleague (a public disagreement is not an attack). The person who was fired has less than a third the followers of the other person (and probably very significant overlap between the follower groups). There certainly was no publishing of contact info, unless you consider all public mentions on Twitter to be publishing contact info (which is preposterous). Your impression of what happened is mistaken.
        fsociety 6y ago
        You’re performing impressive mental gymnastics to say this person’s behavior did not harm psychological safety. Instead of trying to prove there was no harm, and that being a maintainer of an open source project should make it okay if people do this to you.. think about the intent of what this person did. Did they intend to create a safe environment? Or did they intend to bully someone into seeing their view, and doxed them on Twitter. A view that the original tweeter identified as political!
rumanator 6y ago
> Trying to mobilize Twitter mob against a person that declined your suggestion was a problem. That sounds less like a suggestion and more like an order.

Suggesting changes to the website was not a problem. Trying to mobilize Twitter mob against a person that declined your suggestion was a problem.

by kjksf 6y ago

Suggesting changes to the website was not a problem. Trying to mobilize Twitter mob against a person that declined your suggestion was a problem.

baddox 6y ago

I don't see any attempt to mobilize a Twitter mob against a person, unless you just consider all disagreements on Twitter to inherently imply a desire for a Twitter mob to come to your side.

scarmig 6y ago
Imagine someone went to Gab (or whatever the right wing mob platform du jour is) and denounced a colleague and published their contact info on it. There's no explicit call to contact or harass the person. Is this appropriate?
- baddox 6y ago
  I’m not too familiar with Gab, but are you implying that Twitter is exclusively a platform for left wing mobs? If so, you are mistaken, and this coarse impression of what Twitter is should not be projected onto every single tweet.
  - scarmig 6y ago
    Twitter is a platform for mobs of every sort, and if you have a mob of followers and you attack a colleague, publishing his contact info, you are de facto encouraging the mob to attack him, even if you play dumb after the fact.
    - baddox 6y ago
      There was no attack on a colleague (a public disagreement is not an attack). The person who was fired has less than a third the followers of the other person (and probably very significant overlap between the follower groups). There certainly was no publishing of contact info, unless you consider all public mentions on Twitter to be publishing contact info (which is preposterous). Your impression of what happened is mistaken.
      - fsociety 6y ago
        You’re performing impressive mental gymnastics to say this person’s behavior did not harm psychological safety. Instead of trying to prove there was no harm, and that being a maintainer of an open source project should make it okay if people do this to you.. think about the intent of what this person did. Did they intend to create a safe environment? Or did they intend to bully someone into seeing their view, and doxed them on Twitter. A view that the original tweeter identified as political!

rumanator 6y ago

> Trying to mobilize Twitter mob against a person that declined your suggestion was a problem. That sounds less like a suggestion and more like an order.