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
We’ve set up an incredibly low bar of ‘is the person a 15 year old girl, and did Beatnik ever have contact with them’.
This isn’t anywhere close to the sorts of denial with Biden or Kavanaugh.
Instead, what’s pretty blatantly a memey accusation has been taken seriously, Beatnik has given up his position of power pending investigation, and, assuming no further evidence actually does come to light, we’ll shrug it off as being a wrecker.
Typically in situations like this, there’s also often a few victims. If no one else comes forward with stories of Beatnik being weird, it’s a decent sign that he isn’t a predator using ChaCha as a stalking ground.
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‘Degrades quality of investigations’ may very well end up being requiring a higher standard of proof for next time.
This time around, Beatnik acted with an over abundance of caution, knowing, in part, that many in this community are survivors of SV, and that we hold a high standard for not allowing abusers.
After this time, the entire community will be more wary, and more resilient. If the same post pops up next time, we may see the response be “ok give some evidence and we’ll take it seriously”. That creates a higher workload for fabrication.
Also, the stress of a false accusation aside, a two day hiatus isn’t gonna kill the site. The accused gets to go on gardening leave. It’s not like the place falls apart if someone with a red [A] beside their name doesn’t log in for a couple of days.