@PonyPanda
>"Josh is a bad person."
If you genuinely think that these emails start and end at "I don't like him, I think he's bad news, maybe look into this, take care, love Liz", I simply cannot help you. I'm not a licensed special ed teacher.
I've done abuse for MSPs. We throw those emails out. Whatever is getting people to reliably drop someone is probably gonna be extremely libelous, if it's not true.
The other problem is tortious interference and also just straight up harassment. There are instances on fedi that say some pretty extreme shit about me that's very very incorrect and very very inflammatory. And I'm willing to bet that if I harassed the families of employees of tech vendors that they used, at some one point, the police would show up and ask me to stop.
>How is that different than what KF is?
Kiwifarms is a forum. It's a place you can post messages to, and then somebody else can come look at what messages were posted, and hell, maybe even reply to a few. You must go to it, seek it out, ya know... tell your User Agent to fetch the resource on your behalf on the World Wide Web.
On this forum, both sitewide rules *and* cultural pressure deeply discourage involving one's self with the people and topics being discussed. Don't Poke the Glass is a cardinal rule. People calling for such are very quickly ridiculed and outright removed in extreme cases.
Compare and contrast this with actively reaching out and contacting everyone you can find, within x degrees of separation, of literally anybody who may even remotely be in a position to help you exact revenge on someone by taking down their meanie poo poo forum posts about you. Now throw in the threats being insinuated and you have some misdemeanor harassment charges in most US states.
It's the difference between having a bulletin board where you discuss how much of an asshole Bob is, and going to Bob's boss and Bob's landlord and Bob's mailman and the families of all of these people and repeatedly bothering them about Bob and telling them that they're literally murderers if they don't take action against Bob on your behalf.
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