I'm missing the logic here. If few people make a mistake, they should be informed privately, but if many people make a mistake, they should be shamed publicly? No.

And to be honest, I'm getting slightly tired of the community's tendency to stretch metaphors way beyond their applicability. Mine was mostly meant to add a touch of humor. Pants, flies, and underwear aside, auto-hijacking the Twitter accounts of everyone on your network is just dickish (no pun intended). Especially when the belt store is closed to everyone except the pants-manufacturers ;)