Yeah, I believe another tactic is to make engaging with them as frustrating as possible to discourage those who are still willing to push back from engaging at all and allowing their statements to remain unchallenged, which gives more credibility.
But if they do that all out in the open, they can frustrate other readers as well who will either themselves engage or just add downvotes, so there’s also a risk to credibility. So they try to take the conversations to PM.
A counter tactic for that is to bring the PMs back to the public like you did here. Whenever people refer vaguely to harassing PMs, I wish they wouldn’t play along with the anonymity those PMers desire. Just because they tried to make the communication private doesn’t mean you can’t still blast it to the public, with username visible.
Ik it’s not what they meant, but they DMed me to say
Which tracks with what you’ve said here lol
Yeah, I believe another tactic is to make engaging with them as frustrating as possible to discourage those who are still willing to push back from engaging at all and allowing their statements to remain unchallenged, which gives more credibility.
But if they do that all out in the open, they can frustrate other readers as well who will either themselves engage or just add downvotes, so there’s also a risk to credibility. So they try to take the conversations to PM.
A counter tactic for that is to bring the PMs back to the public like you did here. Whenever people refer vaguely to harassing PMs, I wish they wouldn’t play along with the anonymity those PMers desire. Just because they tried to make the communication private doesn’t mean you can’t still blast it to the public, with username visible.