@NonPlayableClown @DutchBoomerMan @SarahGation I have seen the people that claim he has done terrible things to them. Every case I have seen was, like the ACCollective journo, reasonable: he asks me to help him pull shit out of the log files because someone tried uploading CP, people swatted his mom, tried to get him arrested, and they conveniently leave facts like that out of the complaint. If there was a case where he did this sort of thing without extraordinary provocation, all of those "graf is the worst!!!" people would be complaining about that.

Now, I'm aware that there are people that will *claim* that they've been unjustly persecuted. I've seen it: someone shows up to harass randbot (who is a complete dipshit) by signing up for a throwaway FSE account and using it to create one post that contained three images, all of which contained his five-year-old son. I get questions about that ban and Eris shows up and replies to me with "I can't believe you banned him for posting these images!" and attaches some the images so of course I drop him and I don't know who Eris is so I send Crunk a DM telling him that I blocked that account and asking if that sort of thing is permitted there, so that I know whether to leave the account instance-blocked or not. (Crunk, of course, completely ignores the DM, because everyone's out to get KF and just saying "Yeah, we allow that" or "No, we do not, I'll tell him to stop" creates an unacceptable risk: when KF is in trouble everyone needs to band together because freedom of speech is under assault by bathtub HRT vendors, but really simple requests like "Hey, I need to know if I should handle this kind of thing on my end or if you will be handling it on yours" are ignored. But that's a digression; graf's been much more trustworthy and even when we disagree, he says what he thinks rather than ghosting.) Then, for years afterwards, I watch Eris say "I HAVE BEEN STIFLED AND OPPRESSED FOR LITERALLY NO REASON", I watched him threaten to lynch people, threaten to burn Claire's house down in a post where he included her home address, etc. I've seen the same pattern from a lot of other people, I've seen the same people make claims that graf has dropped them for "literally no reason".

Every time I killed an account from FSE's side, I had a good reason, and as far as Poast goes, every incident I have seen has had a reasonable justification. It's not always the same thing I would do in the same situation, but the response has never been disproportionate or unreasonable in even one of the incidents that I have seen, a lot of which I participated in.

So, you can keep telling me "Oh, he's not trustworthy!" but I'm not going to ignore everything I have seen over the course of years just because some people on the internet make the same series of non-specific accusations. As covered in this post and repeatedly in other posts in this thread, I've seen people make shit up, and then I've seen people go along with the fabrications, either because they were gullible or because they don't care that it's made up. Whatever the source of it is, it cannot be due to anything that happened on fedi, because people were already on this shit when he showed up. I am not stupid enough to ignore my eyes because I have heard rumors and suspicions. If there was anything concrete besides "Oh, I don't feel my instance-block was justified", I would have heard it by now, but the rumors and suspicions persist. I'm sick of hearing them. Solomon Asch demonstrated ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments ) that Goebbels was correct: people will believe a lie reported often enough.