A mechanism or tactic · 2008 · Internet
The pile-on
Enforcement by volume: a position is declared untenable, a pile of people makes it so, and the outcome is a fact nobody chose.
Governance without authority. There is no court, no evidence standard and no appeal, only a critical mass of people who can agree, and the person on the losing end has the same parasocial attachment as everyone else and is treated as the problem.
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