Not sure how many people were around four years ago for the original drama, but @storyofrachel@hexbear.net was a banned user from early on the site’s history, and I’ve seen quite a bit of speculation recently that a current frequent poster in c/mutualaid is an alt of hers due to having a similar MO and personal details (such as them both living in the same city)

For context, u/storyofrachel was an unhoused trans woman, who frequently solicited money from the community and had problems with substance abuse. She eventually made a post bragging about scamming money from users here (I myself was one of the users who sent her money) and blowing it on drugs (with a picture of the drugs in question) and a

bunch of homophobic slurs (TW: homophobia, self harm).

She later claimed that her account had been hacked, which frankly I did and do not believe. She was unbanned but later banned for other shit which I don’t recall and am unable to reconstruct from the modlog and came back on a bunch of different alts, all of which were banned.

If there’s any truth to this, it is deeply fucked that this person is still here, evading her ban and scamming people four years later. As one of the people who was taken advantage of previously (and, possibly, again with this current user!), people should at least be able to make an informed decision with all available context. If we want this community to function, and I say this as someone who has sent hundreds of dollars to people over the years through this community, we should be able to guard against bad actors who are trying to take advantage of the compassion and generosity of our user base.

Edit: There’s an Instagram with both usernames on it, publicly available. It’s 100% the same person. Not going to post it because I don’t want anyone to get doxxed but yeah.

Edit edit: I’m going to go touch grass now. Anyone who is being willfully obtuse about why I made this post can read it again or any of my other comments in this thread

  • Leon_Frotsky [she/her, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    5 days ago

    wtf is the intention behind making this post, except specifically trying to drive the user in question off the site because she did some fucked up stuff 4 years ago and called you a rude word, because it’s oviously not an intervention or attempt to help her.

    like is it out of some concern that the people who voluntarily gave her money while fully aware of her situation were too stupid to realise that there’s a chance she might misuse it or is it just some way to make sure you never have to see her posts again? because there’s a much easier solution than the whole “i just think you guys should know” style call out post shit to the latter:

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      30·
      5 days ago

      I think I’ve been pretty clear elsewhere in this thread

      My proposed change is that a known scammer who is evading a ban should be banned for the health of this comm, and that allowing someone like this to operate on here makes it less likely for others who need it to get help

      • Leon_Frotsky [she/her, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        5 days ago

        there’s been nothing to suggest that the user is maliciously using the mutual aid comm or whatever since she came back, if she had been actively trying to scam people why even mention getting the 4k donation and then messing it up when there was no way it would benefit her and actually led to multiple threads of shit like this? everyone on this site likes to act like they believe in rehabilitative justice until they see someone they dont like not being nailed to a wall or some shit for something they did years ago.

        and if anything’s going to make it less likely to get help, its massive call out threads like this on people for using the mutual aid comm while having a drug addiction and using the blank cheque they got given poorly

        edit: you’re transparently not doing this to help other people out, either people donating or people receiving, it’s so obviously just a ploy to get someone you’ve got a chip on your shoulder about either kicked off of or made to feel completely unwelcome on the site (and put in a much worse financial position) for shit they did years ago

            • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
              35·
              5 days ago

              How about an apology or any kind of acknowledgement of fault? Is that also unreasonable or is anything less than a free pass acceptable?

              Feels like your idea of “rehabilitative justice” is that someone who wasn’t even around when the harm took place (you) will declare everything is cool now if she decides that enough time has passed. Not really what I think of when I hear the term