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If it was me, and Kickstarter were my service, I'd have a hard time not banning someone making those claims, calling out an alleged stalker by name / email addr
by bmelton 15y ago
If it was me, and Kickstarter were my service, I'd have a hard time not banning someone making those claims, calling out an alleged stalker by name / email address on a public forum, and the language used.
Regardless, we have a user who, relevant or not, has a history of aggravating the entirety of the communities in which she's affiliated. Whether her stories are true or not is perhaps irrelevant, but if you don't want to become a community that is simply engrossed in drama, then you have to ban this person.
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Edit: Removed cross-posted comment from Reddit due to questions of authenticity.
Regardless, I've read enough of Haywire's comments over the years to have believed it, so I will say that remarks saying she obviously didn't write it are perhaps not so obvious.
Either way, I don't mean to impugn her character except to say that wherever she goes, she seems to draw a crowd and incite riotous behavior. If Kickstarter were my service, I'd ban that behavior. If it wasn't necessarily the right thing to do by her, or by the victim, whomever we deem it to be, it is perhaps the right thing to do for the Kickstarter website and community on the whole.
And please consider that aside from those taking vested interest in one side or the other, this banning makes Kickstarter a better place for those who would rather not be wrapped up in needless drama.
- blingbling23 15y agoThis was obviously written by a troll and not Rachel.
- hoefler 15y agoHmm, this reddit account (brokenrobot23) http://www.reddit.com/user/brokenrobot23 http://www.reddit.com/user/brokenrobot23 was created a few hours ago in support of Rachel, as was your account (blingbling23), quite the coincidence, isn't it?
- Jimmie 15y agoEven so I haven't seen one link backing up the "quote" from reddit. If it was true someone would have provided some sort of verification by now.
- hoefler 15y agoThat is certainly true, I just pointing out the coincidence. That said, Rachel Haywire does have a history of creating drama within communities. I don't want to blame the victim, but every state has a cyberstalking protocol and if this has been going on for 10 years, I can't help but think there's a reason why.
- Metapony 15y agoYeah, this is weird that blingbling23 here and brokenrobot23 on reddit are both less than a day old.
- sakai 15y agoUh... what do you think the actual chance that SHE wrote that? Edit: Answer: Virtually zero.
- rms 15y agoYup. Sad someone here took it seriously.
- hej 15y agoDo you have a link to that? I can’t find it on Reddit. Would be great, thanks!
- bmelton 15y agoIt's here, though I now question whether it was actually posted by the OP. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/s97g4/banned_from_kickstarter_for_being_a_stalking/c4c5j7r http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/s97g4/banned_fro...