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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Managing all that data was never a problem for them. They had the technical expertise, paid staff, and plenty of volunteers.

The challenge was not being shitty to people, and they failed. That's why this news gathers so much attention. We are vindicated to see such a horrible group of people brought down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe?

I tend to think that they treated people shitty because they had no solution to questions that had already been answered, besides closing the question and marking it as duplicate. That the behavior of treating people like shit was a symptom, not the disease.