All questions for the actual reason in that Twitter thread get answered with things like "you haven't read the tweets" or "this is a bad faith argument", so it's all a bit confusing.
All of it seems to stem from something John Sonmez did.
Here's his side of the story.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=HvjQ3Mx-jWg
To be frank, this is becoming a bit of a predictable pattern.
=====BEGIN CONTEXT===== Main thread from cmaxw weighing in. No issues with him): https://mobile.twitter.com/cmaxw/status/1187108668606541824
Kim Crayton's oh so enlightened response (scroll to the top): https://mobile.twitter.com/e_p82/status/1187175306010005504
So... Take from it what you will. Twitter interface is terrible.
=====End Context======
Just looks like another social media based mobbing to me.
John isn't a saint by his own admission, but who amongst us is? No reason to be trying to cancel a person's work just because you disagree with them.
This dive into social media drama brought to you by me. Trying to build context so you don't have to.
The tone of these people is rather outrageous, and it seems all he was doing was calling for calm.
doug was apparently a very naughty boy, but no one would give a straight answer on what the charges were.
That tweet from Uncle Bob reassures me that I'm not the only one confused. In reading through the tweets I'm still not sure what the offense in question was (and I don't have all afternoon to sift through tweets to figure it out).
[0] https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/119241336385646182...