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A witch hunt would involve gaming the reporting system to hassle people for irrelevant reasons.

This is at least arguably discussing how to report a legitimate concern.



> A witch hunt would involve gaming the reporting system to hassle people for irrelevant reasons.

Specifically I would say that a witch hunt is characterized by an assumption of guilt, combined with a high false-positive rate, combined with offers for leniency if the accused points their finger at others. That's how the House Un-American Activities Commission did it, and those are the parallels between the HUAC and Salem that Arthur Miller identified.

Merely accusing somebody of doing their job poorly isn't anything like a witch hunt.




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