François Laupretre wrote on 06/01/2016 16:34:
So, let's analyze what happened when I was accused of 'sabotage' and 'strong-arming' because I had sent a supposedly offending mail to Sara. In my reply, I published the mail in question so that everyone could judge by itself whether it was offending or not. I'm glad we didn't have a PHP official SJW team because it would have probably denied me the right to publish the message, for confidentiality reasons. So, instead of putting the case in the public space where everyone could see that the accusation was highly exagerated, I would have been judged by 5 people who could have banned me on subjective matters (let's not underestimate cultural differences here).
Just to play devil's advocate: the flipside of this is that you posting the message in the public sphere could be seen as appealing to the crowd to back up your interpretation. Just because more people are looking at the message, doesn't mean they're looking at it more objectively.
Note that I am absolutely not saying this is what you were doing, just extrapolating to a hypothetical situation where the same action could have a very different motivation and impact.
I'm also not sure what the solution is, but there's a compromise to be made somewhere between "all accusations will be discussed in an unaccountable private court" and "all accusations must be discussed in full public view".
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