I am putting in to delete all of my SE accounts. My email is in my profile, for as long as it is up. A full out civil war with trolling, doxing, and outright harassment is going on, and I no longer feel safe. I'm posting this here, because you are the people I talk to. If any of you wish to contact me, please feel free to reach out, but I am truly frightened of where this is all going.
@Rubiksmoose it appears that people are dropping off like flies. I've had over 200 rep points dropped due to "User removed". This is going to be a fine mess.
@Snow, @Magisch, @MisterPositive, @motosubatsu Saying my goodbyes now, before my profile is gone for good
@RichardU Good luck sir. I would urge you to take a break, and then decide after say 30 days but ultimately it is up to you. Either way, may the wind be at your back.
@RichardU Well, we're hoping it becomes less messy sooner rather than later and are, of course, doing what we can to make that happen. Good luck with your future endeavors though!
@RichardU hey, did you get my reply to your email? Just want to make sure the path is open, and also that you don't think I was ignoring you if you somehow didn't get it. Thanks.
@motosubatsu thank you. I am baffled by SE compounding the original inappropriate, due-process-lacking action with more and more obstinance and libel and delaying actions. I will eventually be allowed to apply for reinstatement, so guilty until proven innocent, but they refuse to reverse the original decision, retract the libel, or even tell me what they think I did. Disgusting.
@RichardU great, thanks! There's no rush of course; I just wanted to make sure it hadn't gone into a black hole.
@MonicaCellio yeah that's my thoughts exactly - I can't even wrap my head around the thinking at SE over this, let alone the continuing doubling down on it that's only making things worse.
@MisterPositive I think the best we can hope for is "less wrong". That they're letting the defamation run wild for weeks (and it'll be weeks more before their reinstatement process can finish) is Not Good.
They should have offered me immediate reinstatement and retracted that immediately. Instead they doubled down and are dragging their feet. Meanwhile, I get to enjoy ongoing harm to my reputation, my health, and my safety.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
@MonicaCellio FWIW, we are pushing all of the buttons that we can to get this done faster. We're actively pushing, but, as always, we can't see the results (if any) of that except that we know they are being heard in some form.
@Rubiksmoose thank you! I appreciate the support. I really wish we could get them to roll back the bad decision and proceed from there, instead of making me come back (if I get to come back) under a presumption of guilt -- "she deserved it but she got better" or some such. They wronged me terribly and don't seem to care at all about the effects of that. :-(
BTW, for anybody who hasn't seen already, I'm updating my Mi Yodeya meta post with links to my blog posts when they happen.
@RichardU I picked a good time to drop by. I've considered doing that before too but have occasionally referenced my answers here and it's impossible to search otherwise ;-)
it takes manual intervention btw to delete accounts that are over a certain reputation level, too, if you wonder why it takes a while to get your actual accounts deleted
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