While I agree that this would largely have been an effective rebuttal that prevented many people from having the vibes-based reactions they’re having, I think it itself excludes a thing I find rather valuable from this post… namely, that the thing that happened here is one that the community (and indeed most if not all communities) did not handle well and I think are overall unprepared for handling in future circumstances.
Open to hearing ways that point could have been made in a different way, but your post still treats this all as “someone said untrue things about us, here’s the evidence they were untrue and our mistakes,” and I think more mistakes were made beyond just NL or Alice/Chloe.
While I agree that this would largely have been an effective rebuttal that prevented many people from having the vibes-based reactions they’re having, I think it itself excludes a thing I find rather valuable from this post… namely, that the thing that happened here is one that the community (and indeed most if not all communities) did not handle well and I think are overall unprepared for handling in future circumstances.
Open to hearing ways that point could have been made in a different way, but your post still treats this all as “someone said untrue things about us, here’s the evidence they were untrue and our mistakes,” and I think more mistakes were made beyond just NL or Alice/Chloe.