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]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      i-think-that I dont think that a homeless meth addict who also needs to buy hrt should be expected to pay back money she spent on her meth addiction so that she can afford to eat

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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        5 months 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