The hounding of Wil Wheaton off here bothers me greatly. Suggests the admins of Mastodon instances can’t be trusted to do the right thing vs the easy thing (which I don’t blame them for entirely) and highlights a fundamental problem of social media. That the ill informed baying crowd gets what they want is simply not good enough.
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@realmattseymour not involved, but he doesn't seem like much of a victim where I stand. Came here, started shit-stirring, unpleasantness in all directions, and then he left. Whatever, no great loss.
It *does* highlight that the current moderation tools are vastly inadequate (if 60 reports a day makes the system unusable, that's a massive flaw), but that's separate concern with various possible technical solutions.
