>They're saying anything that disagrees with them is bullying and criminal.
That is not want was said. People making direct and indirect threats against the author are not acting in good faith and want to just silence the author without anyone fairly evaluating the proposal.
>Why do they want to silence opposition?
Threats are not productive for deciding if a proposal should be adopted. They are just noise. Wanting to get rid of noise and focus on signal is not "silencing opposition."
> People making direct and indirect threats against the author
Indeed that would be the case if that were so, yet it looks like what actually occurred here is the author is abusing the labelling of bullying and criminal in order to falsely tar all disagreement as that.
This labelling abuse is itself a bullying act designed to intimidate and shame into silence any disagreement by misrepresenting it as a threat. Which is itself a threat: agree with me or I will accuse you of evil and silence you.
That's what it seemed like at the time. Let's note that the quoted comments are from a months' old thread.
Do you have any evidence to support your claim about there being direct and indirect threats?
>Do you have any evidence to support your claim about there being direct and indirect threats?
Read the Github issue and you will see people irrationally freaking out about this, indirectly and directly threatening to sue the author, etc. The people disagreeing and bring up problems were much more civilized until it went vital and then it turned into a cess pool of unproductive discussion.
In the linked Groups post, the author reports "physical threats and other forms of abuse". I find that very easy to believe and your post reads very uncharitable, unless you have concrete reasons to think that the author is lying.
Yes, and that's the problem the GP is pointing out. We're a social species that's predisposed to defend a victim, that's why playing the victim is a very successful bullying tactic.
There's a big difference between using robust language and threatening someone. What we're seeing here is an obvious attempt by a small minded individual to play the victim.
There isn't playing the victim here. He was pointing out the large amount of noise around this. 99% of the people making this noise have not even read the proposal and do not actually understand what it means. It is hard to engage in a productive conversation if people are arguing against a something that your proposal doesn't even do.
> It is hard to engage in a productive conversation if people are arguing against a something that your proposal doesn't even do.
First thing they should stop taking for granted the right to make proposals. Which obviously leads to the fact that they should accept when their BS is rejected.
Threats can never be a justification for them to act against all of internet users, this is BS. One threat which can be manipulated by themselves (false flag) and now they have an excuse? Bullshit. If they have any problem with that, call the police, that's no excuse.
That is not want was said. People making direct and indirect threats against the author are not acting in good faith and want to just silence the author without anyone fairly evaluating the proposal.
>Why do they want to silence opposition?
Threats are not productive for deciding if a proposal should be adopted. They are just noise. Wanting to get rid of noise and focus on signal is not "silencing opposition."