Notices by stuxnetsource@mastodon.social, page 4

Remember kids: hydrate yourself 😎

We have pretty effective tools for excluding people that we don't like, or consider threatening, or unwelcome. Use them.

But pressuring others to ostracise people, and then attacking them if they don't, crosses a line for me. I don't care how right you are or how just your cause. It's still abusive.

I didn't say anything when it was Wil Wheaton because there seemed to be, though not consensus, broad agreement even among people that are strong voices against harassment that Fuck That Guy.

But once he was gone, the guns were quickly trained on other targets. And that "justified harassment" is a weapon would eventually be used to settle grudges and revictimize harassment victims who came here to escape distributed harassment on Twitter, etc.

It's working because resisting the dogpiling is being cast as defending their targets.

But the methods are corrosive, and the collateral effects are not worth the results. This "mob justice as praxis" tactic shouldn't be encouraged or condoned. Nobody appointed you police of the fediverse.

If you participate in such activity, or condone it on your instance, I will likely view it as a violation of my instance's code of conduct and act accordingly.

I'm alarmed because it seems mob justice is causing more and more vulnerable people in the fediverse to shrink back to avoid becoming the next target, including, apparently, admins who I like and respect, and don't blame for being wary.

They're pulling some tired harmful shit, starting with targeting the same victims because it's easy and the already have the recipe, and it's working.

Someone(s) seems to be going down a pre-made list of people to individually target, except the list is made by channers and edgelords and the justifications are unreliable.

Oh, it's the bofa people still.

Someone who still talks to them should let them know that their role as self-appointed "justified" targeted harassment mob is not recognized. ...if you want to risk being their next target, I guess.