BF2S Forums Jurassic Park Jeep

FloppY_ wrote:

Damn I'm too late

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments … _jeep_and/

Today I received non-stop phone calls and emails from an internet pitchfork mob that started in r/gaming. wrote:

Let me start out by saying that I've been a member of reddit for over three years. During that time I've tried to be a positive member of the community. I organized the San Francisco Bay Area meetup group and have held other meetups in Boston, Kansas City and Seattle. Whenever I'm free on weekend nights I try to sit in r/suicidewatch and r/depression and help posters. Last year I hosted an "Orphan Thanksgiving" and invited all local redditors who needed a place to have dinner into my home. I've met all of my close friends through this community, including my boyfriend. I even adopted my dog through r/bayarea. I've seen some of the previous reddit outrages and generally wonder in, tell people to calm down and then downvote the thread. Obviously I'm not always perfect, I sometimes argue with people over silly things and later regret it. But for the most part I love this site and try to make everyones experience as positive as mine has been.

But today I received a call where all I could hear was "Kevin" and "Jeep" before the caller hung up. Then my phone rang again, and again and again. This started in the airport when I was trying to get on a flight after a SF redditors trip to Las Vegas. I had no idea what was going on. Some of the calls were threatening- one caller even asked me if I wanted to know what it was like to be raped. I know that most internet bullies are harmless offline, but the panic created by receiving multiple threatening calls and emails is uncontrollable. As soon as I could check my email (while in line to go through security) I found multiple emails from friends linking me to the offending thread.

Up until a few weeks ago I worked for Telltale Games, I was the event coordinator and the person responsible for getting the Jeep in the previously linked thread to Seattle. Boomer decided to name me directly as the person responsible in a comment that was later deleted by the admins.

Because I host so many meetups all of my information was readily available by Googling my name and many redditors decided to do just that. I've always wondered how many people see low ranked comments. Although I still don't have a good answer I know that this comment only had about 20 upvotes before it was deleted and was halfway down the page when sorted by top. From it I received 83 phone calls (according to Google voice), 41 Facebook messages, and 19 emails. I was lucky enough to put most of my online accounts on the most secure privacy setting while this was happening so I don't know if it could have been worse. I was also able to contact some admins directly so the comment was deleted quickly.

If you, for someone reason, feel like one sided stories with zero proof are a reason to harass someone let me explain exactly how this affected me. I was in Las Vegas for my birthday. When I turned on my phone I was trying to return my parents call to me for my birthday, I never got to talk to them. I know this sounds very /firstworldproblems but both of my parents are sick and older. I don't know how many more times I'll get birthday calls from them. That was also my first real vacation, I'm 28 now.

Like I said above, I'm online more than I'm off and I know how brave people can get behind a phone or computer. But the fear and panic that sets in is horrifying. I knew that something was going on but I didn't know exactly what or how bad it was. I've never once gotten sick from fear but some of the initial calls were so bad that I became physically sick. I started to worry about everything from my job to my home to my parents. Many hours of crying followed. Even ten hours later I am afraid to turn on my phone. Beyond that it makes me think again about my involvement in any community. My information was only posted because I tried to do something positive on this site.

Further more, Boomer was lying about almost everything. I feel like an awful person for posting these but maybe it will make people stop and think twice when it comes to participating in these mobs. Here are screenshots from a few emails that disprove his major points. Here and here. ( I removed the images before posting, I can't do that, but they have been sent to boomer via a reply to his threatening emails to me even after he knew I left Telltale) The dates in the top right are the from the first time he started a fake smear campaign and I had to compile emails so our lawyer could help him file claims. Even though at that point he was obviously scamming us we still tried to help him. I won't post anything else but I have hundreds of emails concerning this. Even before the event he kept demanding that we change the terms. It got so bad that I refused to talk to him and asked him to email me so there was a record. As soon as I met him at PAX I knew something was off, he started claiming damage before he got there and saw the jeep. Even now his massive exaggerations are showing through. What he calls a "joyride" was the thirty feet we had to take the car to be inspected and the gas removed. The only reason I wasn't driving it was because my license was expired by a few days and we wanted everything to be 100% legit. I know there is more than one PAX enforcer here that can confirm the distance.

I won't lie, that thread crushed me in multiple ways. The only reason I took a job at Telltale was because I loved their games and they had recently acquired the rights to two of my favorite movies- Jurassic Park and BttF. I was paid just above the area minimum wage, worked around 50-60 hours a week and had a three to six hour daily commute. I was just happy to be involved in those games in any possible way. But above all I was very proud of the PAX booth and it stings to hear these things as he keeps posting them online over and over again, making me out to be an even bigger bad guy every time.

TLDR: Please don't get involved in these mobs. Activism comes in many forms but harassing a single person isn't one of them.

TLDR: Please don't get involved in these mobs. Activism comes in many forms but harassing a single person isn't one of them.

mtb0minime wrote:

Today We Learned: boomerjinks is a giant greedy douche