I note that the author of this post apparently felt it necessary to create a burner to criticize a psuedonymous account with a few posts. I’m not criticizing that choice . . . but if we’re at the point where people feel the need to use burners to criticize psuedonymous accounts like Omega, then it seems the fear of adverse consequences from posting criticism runs deeper than I had expected.
And that extent of fear would seem to validate Omega’s choice to remain psuedonymous.
There’s no inconsistency here—it’s explicitly in the post that anonymity and pseudonymity have value, but there should be a verification mechanism to ensure a lack of abuse. Especially when significant unverifiable non-public accusations are being made.
I would be happy to verify myself if some procedures were introduced, even though I only was relating positions related to known facts rather than spreading gossip and judgments about the merits of others’ research, culture, personal integrity, and so forth.
I’m not saying definitively that Omega is a bad faith actor—but were someone operating as a bad faith actor who wanted plausible deniability, their strategy would look a lot like Omega’s.
I note that the author of this post apparently felt it necessary to create a burner to criticize a psuedonymous account with a few posts. I’m not criticizing that choice . . . but if we’re at the point where people feel the need to use burners to criticize psuedonymous accounts like Omega, then it seems the fear of adverse consequences from posting criticism runs deeper than I had expected.
And that extent of fear would seem to validate Omega’s choice to remain psuedonymous.
There’s no inconsistency here—it’s explicitly in the post that anonymity and pseudonymity have value, but there should be a verification mechanism to ensure a lack of abuse. Especially when significant unverifiable non-public accusations are being made.
I would be happy to verify myself if some procedures were introduced, even though I only was relating positions related to known facts rather than spreading gossip and judgments about the merits of others’ research, culture, personal integrity, and so forth.
I’m not saying definitively that Omega is a bad faith actor—but were someone operating as a bad faith actor who wanted plausible deniability, their strategy would look a lot like Omega’s.