Something Changed After the Sloan Articles. I Can't Prove It.

This is the third piece in a sequence. The first asked whether Sloan had flagged anyone else — it had. The second documented what I found out — Sloan is a person I know. This one is about what happened after.

I want to be precise about what I'm describing, because I can't prove what I think happened.

Here's what I can document.

The Sequence

I published two essays in June. Both generated real technical discussion — one had a five-exchange comment thread that became a production open-source repo. The founder of DEV.to liked one before it was flagged. Both got flagged by Sloan the same day.