While I don't doubt that there might be some people who could've gone either way on crowdsourced vigilantism but are now vocally against it now that it has fail

While I don't doubt that there might be some people who could've gone either way on crowdsourced vigilantism but are now vocally against it now that it has failed, people were speaking out about how colossally bad of an idea it was from the start[1], for exactly the reasons it ultimately failed. As you said, the crowd is no good at this, but it didn't take this tragedy for people to realize that. That what Reddit was trying to do was a bad idea has historical basis, as well: just look at the Umbrella Man from the JFK assassination investigations and conspiracy theories[2][3] and more recently, the case of Richard Jewell during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing[4]. [1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/hey-reddit-enough-boston-bombing-vigilantism/275062/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/hey-re... [2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoZWb9gqv0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuoZWb9gqv0 [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Man_(JFK_assassination) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Man_(JFK_assassination... [4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell