Comment by awinder

Author dives into this in the post a bit, it's more about how would the NYT write the article about a blog that's no longer there without having to explain their part of poisoning the story. They also talk about prior run-ins with doxing and people calling their practice to try to get them fired off reddit witchhunts, so I think they know this, it's all about preventing a NYT-sized catastrophe when they've already seen low-yield reddit-sized explosions.