no doubt people should be able to share info covertly about someone's behavior, but it's also easily weaponized by people who recognize: oh this person's not playing the game, they'll be easy to take down
I mean imo the stigmatization of gossip is part of the problem- I had an IRL... incident? w a Twitter person who others had had bad experiences with but the gossip never reached me to beware of him... I Tweeted abt it and several ppl DMed to thank me for the warning bec he'd been in contact w them
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