i hope it's clear by now that reputational damage is a terrible mechanism for getting people to do good work. operating off of fear and shame and embarrassment makes you - pardon my language - an uncreative coward. courage means being willing to risk your fucking reputationhttps://twitter.com/polyaletheia/status/1243659924137103362 …
More to the point tho, we need to calibrate our response to what we want. Here we are talking about a false negative where a false positive would have been a lot safer. In other cases (WMD, anyone?) its more appropriate to disincentivize false positives.