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Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by rms »

sakai wrote: post #120
bmelton wrote: post #112

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 w…

Uh... what do you think the actual chance that SHE wrote that? Edit: Answer: Virtually zero.

Yup. Sad someone here took it seriously.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by Fargren »

Jugglernaut wrote: post #108
ErrantX wrote: post #99

The commenting here is interesting, as is the post. I have some general comments to make about cyberstalking and situations like this - but want to preface it with the disclaimer that I've never heard of Rachel before and cannot sit in any form of judgement on her . However, I was cyberstalked (and then RL stalked & harassed), so I know that it sucks and it can be dangerous. I have no idea what Rachel's stalker has d…

This is one of her responses: "As you all know I have a rockin' tight ass, a successful project on Kickstarter that you've all funded, and a cyberstalker that goes by the name of FrankSinatraDirtyTalker1915@comcast.net. I originally met "Frank" back in College, where we dated for a bit. I should point out that he's not an old man, as his username might imply, but rather someone who is simply obsessed with Frank Sinat…

I think it's far more likely that that was posted by a troll or by the stalker than by her...

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by rms »

Jugglernaut wrote: post #108
ErrantX wrote: post #99

The commenting here is interesting, as is the post. I have some general comments to make about cyberstalking and situations like this - but want to preface it with the disclaimer that I've never heard of Rachel before and cannot sit in any form of judgement on her . However, I was cyberstalked (and then RL stalked & harassed), so I know that it sucks and it can be dangerous. I have no idea what Rachel's stalker has d…

This is one of her responses: "As you all know I have a rockin' tight ass, a successful project on Kickstarter that you've all funded, and a cyberstalker that goes by the name of FrankSinatraDirtyTalker1915@comcast.net. I originally met "Frank" back in College, where we dated for a bit. I should point out that he's not an old man, as his username might imply, but rather someone who is simply obsessed with Frank Sinat…

Obvious Reddit troll, please keep that crap off of Hacker News.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by hej »

bmelton wrote: post #112

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 w…

Do you have a link to that? I can’t find it on Reddit. Would be great, thanks!

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by bmelton »

hej wrote: post #125
bmelton wrote: post #112

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 w…

Do you have a link to that? I can’t find it on Reddit. Would be great, thanks!

It's here, though I now question whether it was actually posted by the OP.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/s97g4/banned_fro...

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by agentgt »

Regardless of stalking:

So basically Kickstarter is saying if there is some other project you don't like on the site you can get it taken off by hiring an offshore site to spam the competitor project.

They need a stackoverflow or quora like community system (I haven't used the site but I'm assuming they don't).

I will say that was kind of crappy of her to post Daniella's full name. It might not be her fault. It could be the company's policy. If it was a letter from the CEO I could understand. My wife is an executive assistant and she routinely has to write letters that she doesn't necessarily agree with.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by hoefler »

blingbling23 wrote: post #119
bmelton wrote: post #112

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 w…

This was obviously written by a troll and not Rachel.

Hmm, this reddit account (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?

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by avree »

Jugglernaut wrote: post #108
ErrantX wrote: post #99

The commenting here is interesting, as is the post. I have some general comments to make about cyberstalking and situations like this - but want to preface it with the disclaimer that I've never heard of Rachel before and cannot sit in any form of judgement on her . However, I was cyberstalked (and then RL stalked & harassed), so I know that it sucks and it can be dangerous. I have no idea what Rachel's stalker has d…

This is one of her responses: "As you all know I have a rockin' tight ass, a successful project on Kickstarter that you've all funded, and a cyberstalker that goes by the name of FrankSinatraDirtyTalker1915@comcast.net. I originally met "Frank" back in College, where we dated for a bit. I should point out that he's not an old man, as his username might imply, but rather someone who is simply obsessed with Frank Sinat…

I'm pretty sure you just made that up.

EDIT: Nevermind, you just took it from http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/s97g4/banned_fro... , an obvious reddit troll.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by dhimes »

Fargren wrote: post #123
Jugglernaut wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of her responses: "As you all know I have a rockin' tight ass, a successful project on Kickstarter that you've all funded, and a cyberstalker that goes by the name of FrankSinatraDirtyTalker1915@comcast.net. I originally met "Frank" back in College, where we dated for a bit. I should point out that he's not an old man, as his username might imply, but rather someone who is simply obsessed with Frank Sinat…

I think it's far more likely that that was posted by a troll or by the stalker than by her...

Agreed. In her blog post she says that this is someone who "stalks" hundreds of targets. A stalker that stalks because of a personal vendetta/obsession, as the troll post implies, wouldn't do that.
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