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The tone of this blogpost is over the top. I mean...

  The *erasure* of Luigi Mangione
  The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, *and how tech always serves the ruling class.*
or

  It’s important to *grasp the severity* of my suspension: suspending a professional resource for one year will create a hardship for me. And, I’m one of the largest producers of content on the network
We're not talking about the Department of Defense, or the Catholic Church. StackOverflow is just a popular Q&A website. Since it's popular with the software development community, it's of some importance - not enough to merit using the tone of Woodward and Bernstein or John Rawls.



To your point of: "... suspending a professional resource for one year will create a hardship for me. And, I’m one of the largest producers of content on the network ..."

https://stackoverflow.com/users/124486/evan-carroll?tab=answ...

Evan is only suspended on Stack Overflow. Compare https://stackoverflow.com/users/124486/evan-carroll and https://dba.stackexchange.com/users/2639/evan-carroll ... or for that matter any of the other parts: https://stackexchange.com/users/42701/evan-carroll?tab=accou...

Likewise, the "largest producers" ... https://stackoverflow.com/users/124486/evan-carroll?tab=answ... and https://stackoverflow.com/users/124486/evan-carroll?tab=ques... would bring that into question.

Even on the site with the highest rep... https://dba.stackexchange.com/users/2639/evan-carroll?tab=an... the most recent answer was August 12th. The next most recent answer was October 1st (of 2023).

The self-aggrandizement and over the top tone does not do any favors for taking the content seriously.




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