Livre d'Or

Thanks for the larger discussion! (I feel I ought to clarify your first paragraph, though: Elise talked to a sizeable number of people before deciding on posting and *how* she posted. I'm only one of them.

(That said, I've been Elise's occasional External Brain for a number of years, for organising tasks and wrangling data, and this is certainly another one of them.)

The six bloggers who volunteered to help are all friends of hers: the idea was definitely to have conversation going in multiple places (and so that Elise would not have to be the one moderating the conversation when necessary.) They all were exceedingly glad to help (from the comments she's made to me, the longest back and forth was about when and how to release it, everyone said "Oh, yes, absolutely" very quickly when she asked.)

To answer your question: I don't think I know anyone who has been falsely accused, nor do I think I know of anyone (people I know directly - people I consider friends, not just 'vague overlap in online space without a lot of individual interaction') who's made an accusation without having a fair bit of backup for it (whether that's witnesses or evidence in some form or whatever.)