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Hey it could be worse, imagine having a link to your own KF thread in a frontpage HN article. Now that's a bad look ^-^; Referring to GP, of course. I apprecia
by byuu 6y ago
Hey it could be worse, imagine having a link to your own KF thread in a frontpage HN article. Now that's a bad look ^-^;
Referring to GP, of course. I appreciate the link to my reply. For any folks here that read the post, please also read my reply if you don't mind. For folks who don't read the thread at all, just note that this is about me saying dumb things online, mostly when I was a young adult. I haven't actually done anything heinous nor are there substantiated allegations to that effect.
Specifically, my reason for stepping down is because in spite of doing my best to change and better myself, my mere presence was still dragging down the other developers working on my emulators, and my friends were starting to get dragged into things because of their association with me. They went rather easy on me on KF, but there's another 289 pages of this on 4chan. It got to a point where someone there was compiling a list of my friends' real names, photographs, and where they lived. A friend of mine suffered an anxiety attack when I replied to them on social media. Another was fearful enough to delete her Twitter account.
I can handle criticism and admit my mistakes, but I can't handle other people paying the price for them. I feel personally responsible for that, because I am. If I had behaved more professionally, this wouldn't have happened. So it's on me.
- jpgvm 6y agoAs someone that was just curious about what sort of drama was going on I think you responded well and if it's made you a better person there isn't anything to feel bad about. I have seen stuff from you pop up on here from time to time that I found impressive and cool. I hope you still find motivation to do cool and impressive things and share them with the world even if you are closing this chapter of your journey.
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- ipython 6y agoMy god the people in that thread are deranged. I don’t know you, but damnit you did something that 100% of the other losers in that thread failed to do- you changed history for the better through your code. Creating, and more importantly, maintaining, a major open source project takes guts, skill, and tenacity. Take a deep breath, tell yourself “good job” and know deep down that you’ve accomplished something that only an infinitesimally small number of people on this earth are able to achieve. Losers gonna lose, I guess. You’re not a loser. You don’t owe those losers anything, least of all your time.
- Aloha 6y agoApologizing to internet trolls is a zero sum game. If you enjoy working on it, and others enjoy using your work, keep doing it and just ignore the idiots on the internet, they'll eventually get bored and go find someone more interesting to harass.
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