Audacity fork dev quits due physical abuse by 4Chan

For all intents and purposes, I'm an outside observer.

This doesn't make sense to me. Why would 4chan be involved? 4chan doesn't just get involved in something they don't care about. You usually have to piss them off in some way to gain their attention.

In almost 10 years of Github activity, I've never seen 4chan bleed over.

For claiming to have never posted there, you sure seem to know how it works. By contrast, people unfamiliar with it usually have no idea the boards are referred to as /g/ or /b/ or whatever. That doesn't sound like someone who's never posted there before to me.

So some random people showed up at your place here in Germany, you somehow figured out they were from 4chan, you were attacked, then you found all the links of them talking about you... all because of what? Like, what caused this? I don't believe for a second you had nothing to do and you were just a completely random bystander.

Because of this, your claim that you've "never posted to 4chan" doesn't make any sense to me. 4chan doesn't just fuck with people for no reason. I'm not defending them whatsoever, but there is some semblance of a method to their madness.

Further, you're saying "flag this repository for hate speech and violence". But I don't see any of that in that repo aside from some harmless memes. The maintainers of that repo have full names and pictures of themselves - surely they care enough about their safety not to be involved with this? Unless they're incredibly dumb.

In fact, that repository has quite a bit of seemingly legitimate original development work on it that isn't PR'd/cherry-picked from other repos. Why would people interested in simply harming you, randomly, also build up a seemingly legitimate fork of Audacity in the meantime?

Also, if that repository really is violating rules, and you really do have an open police case, then that repo will get taken down by court order anyway.

Lastly, three days after making this announcement, you >>updated> [tackling problems including] defamation attempts by Internet Trolls >>and other (state-level) actors that abuse the power of unverifiable sources.This doesn't sound like a person on level ground to me. This sounds like far-reaching paranoia or some kind of break down. If you were worried about state actors after this incident, why are you working with the German federal police? With Github?

This just doesn't make any sense. It comes off as someone who is emotional, unstable or upset about something, or even trying to cover up a mistake (it's similar to how I've acted when I've screwed something up when I was much younger).

This is a type of drama I've literally never seen on Github - and I've seen a lot. I am forced to assume cookieengineer's claim of not being involved whatsoever is just an outright lie, and thus this whole announcement kind of crumbles (no pun intended) for me.

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EDIT: Looking through the Tenacity fork, wow that whole entire team has drama issues. There are quite a few issues on there about people asking questions and having them deleted, long monologues about censorship and "this is the workplace of tenacity members", etc.

It feels very "kids club". It doesn't surprise me it's attracted weird drama/attention.

Take everything with a grain of salt here. The attempted murder claims are very fishy.

EDIT2: Also, worth pointing out that the federal police here wouldn't normally see a case like this, if I understand it correctly (I might not). Normally the Polizei would handle this sort of thing. It's the equivalent of going to the FBI for someone threatening you in the street.