[reinaberg]

As someone who has been a "dogpiler" and "dogpilee" i would like to give my perspective. I had my rep plummeted everything i posted regardless the content was mass -10ed by the ttt community a couple years ago and was accused of "sucking dick for a promotion".

I feel like what happened recently was different it wasn't merely a disagreement with the majority. It was a toxic player that bent rules to his favor and ran to staff when others did it as well. He constantly picked fights then cried when he got shot for it. He wasn't -1ed for disagreement he was-1ed for refusing to take any accountability for his own actions.

I realize this deviates a bit from the core point of the thread, so I won't talk about the actual drama past this one post. 

The ones under fire in dogpile posts are often not the ones who actually did anything. In reference to the most recent one (not the ban request), Phoenix was not the core point of that thread. If they were, those concerns would have been discussed with those who made the decision. A post like that is clearly a call to action directed towards community members, not staff members. The purpose is to show everyone else what you're upset about because the actual goal is to put on display the behavior of those with whom you're annoyed, not those who have broken the rules. 

That is the backbone of a callout post. People are annoyed with someone so they want to create a sort of informal petition to say to that person, "I'm right, you're a piece of shit, and look at all these people who agree with me." Reputation only serves as another tool to show the subject of the post how many people aren't on their side. It emphasizes the fact that the post is going to be 20 people running a train on them until they give in and do what the majority wants.