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You don't know that they haven't faced abuse like this before, you're just assuming this is the first/only case, maybe this is just the final straw. But that's

by olliej 2y ago

You don't know that they haven't faced abuse like this before, you're just assuming this is the first/only case, maybe this is just the final straw. But that's also moot - people don't have a right to abuse others, people have a right to not be subjected to this kind of abuse. If a person is not allowed to halt a project when they receive abuse, then you're saying that they are required to accept abuse as part of their (typically) unpaid labor. There is a huge difference between "I am willing to put up with this" and "You are required to put up with this". You are saying that because the former applies to you, that therefore the latter applies to everyone. I get that this is the long term outcome of the "don't feed the trolls" concept, which is tacitly the message "being a troll is a-ok", which has led people like this ass to think that just because they can send this kind of shit, that it's ok to.

cue_the_strings 2y ago
Of course they can leave. Not just that, everybody can leave for any reason whatsoever, including being bored of the project. But if you're leaving because of abuse, you're both letting the troll win and potentialy opening yourself to more abuse. If you're sufficiently enraged by trolls, you may overreact, and start supporting policies that are more damaging than the trolling itself, like supporting surveillance or forcing KYC on everything. Let me qualify this by saying that I support reporting people for abuse to the authorities if that's a thing where you live, but I don't support asking for more surveillance just to catch trolls. I see this pattern every day, on every level: "I'm being victimized and something needs to be done about it". I hope that people will think about what "something" is and make sure it's not making things even worse.

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You don't know that they haven't faced abuse like this before, you're just assuming this is the first/only case, maybe this is just the final straw. But that's

by olliej 2y ago

cue_the_strings 2y ago
Of course they can leave. Not just that, everybody can leave for any reason whatsoever, including being bored of the project. But if you're leaving because of abuse, you're both letting the troll win and potentialy opening yourself to more abuse. If you're sufficiently enraged by trolls, you may overreact, and start supporting policies that are more damaging than the trolling itself, like supporting surveillance or forcing KYC on everything. Let me qualify this by saying that I support reporting people for abuse to the authorities if that's a thing where you live, but I don't support asking for more surveillance just to catch trolls. I see this pattern every day, on every level: "I'm being victimized and something needs to be done about it". I hope that people will think about what "something" is and make sure it's not making things even worse.