Eugen RochkoI'm not happy with how the Wil Wheaton situation was resolved. An admin was overwhelmed with frivolous reports about him and felt forced to exile him. I've said before that I think it sets a dangerous precedent on how a large group of people can mobilize to drive anyone off the fediverse. Mob rule is universally dangerous: Mods and admins must examine evidence and decide based on wrongdoing and danger, and not on how many times someone was reported.
cap'n crush@Gargron People with different opinions than mine should never be allowed to speak
Sally Strange@knotlump People who reduce complex matters of bigotry, power, and social dynamics to "different opinions than mine" should voluntarily abstain from speaking until they figure out how now to be absurdly disingenuously reductive on the subject
@Sallystrange Thanks for helping me make my point
joe@knotlump @Sallystrange that you're being disingenuous? Because you are.
@Smokinjoe @Sallystrange I should probably be silenced then.
@knotlump @Sallystrange you are quite the crybaby
@Smokinjoe @Sallystrange Excellent name calling. I'm just not cool with totalitarianism. Feel free to block me. I've cried myself to sleep before. I'll live
@knotlump @Smokinjoe People expressing the opinion that you're not being direct is not totalitarianism
@Sallystrange @Smokinjoe Totalitarianism is a group of people working to silence someone they don't agree with. Not just stop listening to, but silencing completely. That is dangerous. I don't know this Wheaton cat at all, sounds like he's a dick, so block him. Block all his accounts. The arrogance it takes to believe it's good idea to stop one individual from ever being heard again is astounding to me
@knotlump @Smokinjoe LOL @ "stop one individual from ever being heard from again"
Nobody is going to kill Wil Wheaton. If you can't make your point without blatantly dishonest analogies, maybe your point sucks. Also adding to the probability that your point sucks: commenting in total ignorance. Additional irony points: complaining about the arrogance of others in the same breath.
@Sallystrange @Smokinjoe I never said anyone was going to kill him. I'm satisfied that I've expressed my opinion and I was able to do so without making personal statements/judgements about you and so I plan to move on now. Have a nice life.
@knotlump @Smokinjoe How else would we "ensure that [Wil Wheaton] was never heard from again"? People want him away from here, not sleeping with the fishes. That's the trouble with weasel words!