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It's also entirely possible he realized that it would quickly become whack-a-mole. Someone can trivially spin up a copycat, especially if it's known (or even s

It's also entirely possible he realized that it would quickly become whack-a-mole. Someone can trivially spin up a copycat, especially if it's known (or even suspected) that the former account got a payout. There would also be lots of extra visibility on it if the account disappeared, I'm sure there would be articles worse than this one waxing poetic about how obviously twitter did it to oppose their new overlord musk, and if not, how obviously musk strong-armed the account owner into shutting it down, and if not, how musk using his exorbitant wealth to hide information is egregious. I'm sure it just became easier to ignore it and mitigate the actual issues it created (if any) in other ways.

constantcrying 4y ago
>It's also entirely possible he realized that it would quickly become whack-a-mole. Why offer the 5k then? Of course it is a stupid idea, the flight data is public anyway. But why would $45k change Musks mind about the matter?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
  (FWIW, I agree with your conclusion.) > But why would $45k change Musks mind about the matter? One reason might be pride. I could conceive of somebody believing that they've offered something that is "fair" and being insulted when their fair offer is rejected (and especially more so when they're also told that the offer was 10% of "fair"). Anyway, to your point, there's lots of reasons Musk would never even consider making the offer in the first place, so it's a rather dubious claim.