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.
Brittany Sneers@Gargron so the frivolous reports he and his sycophants filed were extremely cool and acceptable?
@bluepurplerain No, I am not saying that. But I've seen some reports coming from mastodon.social users *about* messages sent to Wil Wheaton, and *those* I can attest were not frivolous. There were rather graphic/violent messages there.
Neea@Gargron @bluepurplerain Can we have screenshot of this messages ?
Michael Lubert@Neea @Gargron @bluepurplerain They'd have to exist for there to be screen shots. It's easy to invent abuse when you're the creator of the platform and people are mad at you for a series of bad, selfish, and harmful decisions.
Piers Beckley@mlubert @Neea @Gargron @bluepurplerain I can confirm that I reported several abusive toots.
But hey, perhaps I’m a false flag operation, and every message sent was actually filled with love?
care to give us an example of what you reported that was abusive?
@piersb @Neea @Gargron @bluepurplerain Again, prove it. But nobody took screenshots? Not a SINGLE ONE?
@piersb @Neea @Gargron @bluepurplerain Mods: "Hey, here's the abuse some people sent to him"
Everyone: "Wow, that's bad. We can see now why you overreacted in your response."
Instead, Mods: "Here's 3 conflicting reasons we can't prove and we're gonna call him the victim of an attack when in reality it's people reporting a known bad faith arguer who has a history of anti-trans behavor and support and who actively supports a rapist who's playing the victim card AGAIN"