"Like, just say "I want my platform, because it's clearly mine, and not the userbase's, to work this way because it's the only way it'd make sense to me, and I do not care which users it harms, alienates or disenfranchises, no matter how hard some of them have been working to popularize said platform even while I've been acting in a hostile manner toward them using it.""

Some incredibly insightful comments here:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7702#issuecomment-394041017

#MastoDev #TrendingHashtags #AntiAbuse

"I'm going to ask you one last time, even if I feel like it's a waste of breath, to respect these people who are just trying to survive on your platform, some of whom, again, are still trying to get people to come to it even with you acting in ways that endanger them like this latest round of foolishness, and maybe start listening to them without being as condescending as you've been here, on the previous thread about this "feature", and elsewhere for months now."

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7702#issuecomment-394041017

I should probably be taking this behind CWs. I'm sorry that I didn't from the beginning. Sometimes I feel like some stuff needs to be said out loud, but I understand the need for CWs, and I apologize.

One of the reasons this frustrates me, because it happens just 3 weeks after I was told I wasn't strictly needed in the role I was filling.

Like, I wanted to make sure we didn't get another blowup like this, that we did some proper planning, and checked the temprature

The temperature of the waters, so to speak. Find out what people wanted, not only by looking at a really old feature request, but maybe sharing it again and being like "Okay, this is on the table for consideration, but we need some more feedback, and look at abuse-vectors etc."

Showing that we wanted to listen. But like.... The result, is that G is back at "I don't care what you say", while pretending that he still wants to be Anti-Abuse.

@maloki He's basically just a flaming shitheel to anyone who disagrees with him or criticizes him in any way, isn't he?