the rachel drama/hack, the pronoun struggle sessions, and now this (most likely) false accusation against beatnik show that there’s a lot of asshats with no morality willing to use anything against the site, and we need to get a lot smarter and stop falling for it
i respect the way they are handling this
but it’s so obviously false that they could have just deleted the comment and banned the account and that would be ok too
it might be obvious to people who know beatnik, but he’s an internet stranger to me, and if the response was simply to memory hole it, that would feel like they were desisting in their duties as moderators. it’s possible to presume innocence while taking accusations seriously, and that’s what has been done.
I’m glad they are erring on the side of caution but even without knowing him, the post seemed really off. She’s a 15 year old girl and they bonded over a shared interest in craft beers? And that he enjoys IPAs like everything else about him that the poster claimed to know from personal interaction was available in his reddit post history. For example, but again I’m glad that they’re doing due diligence.
I know nothing about the dude -well, I guess I now know he has a family crest featuring a fox- and the initial post still screamed troll to me
