The issue isn’t how unlikely the situation is, it’s “why would you choose harrassment”.
He is not just saying that she is a man, he is saying that she is a scammer. In your 90% chances that she is a man, she might also be trans-adjacent (everyone knows there are no horny trans on lemmy), and still not be a scammer. It is trivial to find out whether she is in fact a scammer, as all communications are public. Scammers do not like niche platforms composed entirely of scam-hardened people where all communications are public.
I’m not going to make arbitrary numbers here, I’ll let you bayes-vibe your own. Given how easy it is to actually find out, and how likely he is to be defaming and how bad it could be for her, he should be contacting an admin rather than make public “meme” accusations. If he did in fact believe she was a scammer and could harm people, I hope he would try to get her banned rather than just be toxic for internet points and let people get scammed. Especially bad when the accusations are repeated, by him and different people.
BTW I think 90% chance is way too much. Anyways. I’ve been told it wasn’t very nice to spend my days transvestigating, and here are everyone running an excavation. But I guess it’s ok since everyone’s doing it :shrug:
The issue isn’t how unlikely the situation is, it’s “why would you choose harrassment”.
He is not just saying that she is a man, he is saying that she is a scammer. In your 90% chances that she is a man, she might also be trans-adjacent (everyone knows there are no horny trans on lemmy), and still not be a scammer. It is trivial to find out whether she is in fact a scammer, as all communications are public. Scammers do not like niche platforms composed entirely of scam-hardened people where all communications are public.
I’m not going to make arbitrary numbers here, I’ll let you bayes-vibe your own. Given how easy it is to actually find out, and how likely he is to be defaming and how bad it could be for her, he should be contacting an admin rather than make public “meme” accusations. If he did in fact believe she was a scammer and could harm people, I hope he would try to get her banned rather than just be toxic for internet points and let people get scammed. Especially bad when the accusations are repeated, by him and different people.
BTW I think 90% chance is way too much. Anyways. I’ve been told it wasn’t very nice to spend my days transvestigating, and here are everyone running an excavation. But I guess it’s ok since everyone’s doing it :shrug:
Who said anything about scamming? At most, it’s an accusation of trolling for the lulz. Which is actually quite common on the internet.