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The night a Twitter mob came for my local diner changed my take on callouts
I was at Joe's Diner in Pittsburgh when the owner got dragged online for a joke a regular told him, 300 replies in under 2 hours. The guy lost his weekend rush and closed Monday, even though the regular said it was taken out of context. Does anyone else feel like the punishment never fits the original offense these days?
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violatorres23d ago
Have you ever seen one of these pileups where the original post was actually as bad as people said? Sometimes the mob is right, or at least partly right, and the diner thing just happens to be a case where it wasn't. I've watched callouts take down people who were truly awful, and the fact that it went too far once doesn't mean the whole thing is broken. The tricky part is figuring out which is which before 300 people pile on, and nobody has a great answer for that.
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