At first I thought you were trolling but you're right, Coraline links to your Twitter post in the original Opalgate PR. I wouldn't really call what you did "instigation" though. You called out a post on Twitter you thought was BS, but that's way different than actually taking action to boot someone from a project, their career, etc. The former I would call "speech" or "an opinion", the latter I would call (esp. with Twitter mob backing) "bullying", "instigation", and/or "aggression".
If Coraline feels bullied or harrassed, my guess would be because people tend to react to bullying and aggression with bullying and aggression. "You reap what you sow", "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar", etc.
How do you think Coraline saw this information? I spread it. She just took the brave step of actually trying to get that psycho off an important community project. All I did was gossip.
> If Coraline feels bullied or harrassed
She's gotten death threats. Doxed. Anything relating to codes of conduct will immediately bring her up, likely lying about the situation or her intentions. There is zero good faith discussion going on in this thread.
Her attempting to remove a toxic person from a community should not result in this hate, yet here you are, without all the facts, deciding she deserves it.
I never said she "deserves" the hate that she gets, I speculated why she gets it. And my theory is that hate begets hate. On paper Coraline and her ilk have good values, many of which I agree with, but her combative style of proselyting her values has the side effect of enraging people and making them want to punch back.
If HN should be nuked from orbit, Twitter should be nuked from orbit a hundred fold. It's a breeding ground for hate and mob justice.
I wonder why.