My prior is that the reason Throwaway151 posted under a new anonymous account is not that they want to harass you.
Yeah, given the extensive documentation that the Throwaway151 account posted of years worth of Torres’ falsehoods, I think it’s absolutely clear that it’s someone who has far more than a passing interest, and that even if the post wasn’t malicious, it was at least negligently defamatory, given that they admitted that no effort went into verifying any of the original claim.
I think that anonymity encouraged/enabled the negligence and was for that reason and to that extent bad. That’s different from trying to harass Torres. Any malice or negligent defamation has been towards Cremer and Kemp.
I was just saying that a major reason Throwaway151 could reasonably desire anonymity is Torres’s verifiable track record (see other comments on this post) of harassment. So anonymity is less evidence of ill intent than it would otherwise be. Of course, if Throwaway151 has in fact harassed Torres on Twitter as Torres claims, that is terrible. (I maintain that nothing Throwaway151 has done on the Forum constitutes harassment of Torres.)
Related small point: I think you mean “years worth of Torres’s menacing behavior”, not “years worth of Torres’s falsehoods”. As far as I can tell there aren’t actually any lies in that thread, just unnerving behavior.
Yeah, given the extensive documentation that the Throwaway151 account posted of years worth of Torres’ falsehoods, I think it’s absolutely clear that it’s someone who has far more than a passing interest, and that even if the post wasn’t malicious, it was at least negligently defamatory, given that they admitted that no effort went into verifying any of the original claim.
I think that anonymity encouraged/enabled the negligence and was for that reason and to that extent bad. That’s different from trying to harass Torres. Any malice or negligent defamation has been towards Cremer and Kemp.
I was just saying that a major reason Throwaway151 could reasonably desire anonymity is Torres’s verifiable track record (see other comments on this post) of harassment. So anonymity is less evidence of ill intent than it would otherwise be. Of course, if Throwaway151 has in fact harassed Torres on Twitter as Torres claims, that is terrible. (I maintain that nothing Throwaway151 has done on the Forum constitutes harassment of Torres.)
Related small point: I think you mean “years worth of Torres’s menacing behavior”, not “years worth of Torres’s falsehoods”. As far as I can tell there aren’t actually any lies in that thread, just unnerving behavior.