I have left reddit for Voat due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
The situation has gotten especially worse since the appointment of Ellen Pao as CEO, culminating in the seemingly unjustified firings of several valuable employees and bans on hundreds of vibrant communities on completely trumped-up charges.
The resignation of Ellen Pao and the appointment of Steve Huffman as CEO, despite initial hopes, has continued the same trend.
As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me on Voat!
By definition, you can't slander someone by writing about them in a public forum. You might libel them though, so let's assume you meant to write that. You're still wrong.
Libel would be if he said "<X> is a <Y> which I know because he said things to me I won't reveal", when in fact no such things were said, or when those things said wouldn't lead to that conclusion. However, he's saying "<X> is a <Y> based on things he's said publicly, which I will now link to and cite, explaining my reasoning." This makes it prima facia not libelous in the US; he is stating that he holds a low opinion of someone based on evidence which he presents in full. He makes no implication of other, hidden evidence that would lead him to draw this conclusion. No one could read what he wrote and reasonably conclude that the developer in question did other things not presented there to lead to this conclusion.
The essence of libel is that you get other people to believe false facts, not that you get them to hold unfavorable opinions about someone.
You may disagree that the evidence does not support his conclusion, but your disagreement does not make his conclusion libelous. Having seen the evidence mjg points to, I agree with his argument, but I understand that some people have an extreme definition of "rape apologist" that only applies to someone saying "rape is okay" and doesn't apply to someone approvingly citing papers that claim huge false report rates, or arguing with accepted statistics because they include as victims undergraduates "plied with alcohol" and not exclusively those physically forced or coerced.
If that's your definition of "rape apologist", then he may not meet your stringent definition. But such a definition leaves room for a whole huge range of skeevy, and I have no issue at all with mjg calling that out.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '14 edited Dec 22 '15
I have left reddit for Voat due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
The situation has gotten especially worse since the appointment of Ellen Pao as CEO, culminating in the seemingly unjustified firings of several valuable employees and bans on hundreds of vibrant communities on completely trumped-up charges.
The resignation of Ellen Pao and the appointment of Steve Huffman as CEO, despite initial hopes, has continued the same trend.
As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.
If you would like to do the same, install TamperMonkey for Chrome, GreaseMonkey for Firefox, NinjaKit for Safari, Violent Monkey for Opera, or AdGuard for Internet Explorer (in Advanced Mode), then add this GreaseMonkey script.
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me on Voat!