I disagree with the sibling thread about this kind of post being “low cost”, BTW; I think adding salience to “who blocked whom” types of considerations can be subtly very costly.
I agree publicizing blocks has costs, but so does a strong advocate of something with a pattern of blocking critics. People publicly announcing “Bob blocked me” is often the only way to find out if Bob has such a pattern.
I do think it was ridiculous to call this cultish. Tuning out critics can be evidence of several kinds of problems, but not particularly that one.
I agree that it is ridiculous to call this cultish if this was the only evidence, but we’ve got other lines of evidence pointing towards cultishness, so I’m making a claim of attribution more so than a claim of evidence.
I agree publicizing blocks has costs, but so does a strong advocate of something with a pattern of blocking critics. People publicly announcing “Bob blocked me” is often the only way to find out if Bob has such a pattern.
I do think it was ridiculous to call this cultish. Tuning out critics can be evidence of several kinds of problems, but not particularly that one.
I agree that it is ridiculous to call this cultish if this was the only evidence, but we’ve got other lines of evidence pointing towards cultishness, so I’m making a claim of attribution more so than a claim of evidence.