Old news.
They could have handled it by just having a statement “This is a knitting site, not a politics forum. Postings containing politics will be deleted”, and uniformly enforced it.
But nooooo....
Start your own group, Ladies!
All your retarded clickbait are belong to ..... other sources, apparently. Here is the rest. See, posting bot? Not clickbait now.
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In an unusual but interesting line of reasoning, her dissatisfaction with Ravelry’s anti-Trump policy is practical, not political. What she resents is that the site is now spending time and money on policing their new ban. Yet at the same time, they’re not making funds available to deal with the serious issue of pattern piracy on the site.
In other words, Ravelry’s suppression of Trump supporters clearly takes greater precedence over doing something about the piracy of its own members’ patterns and projects. Squelching free speech is now far more important than protecting the patterns of Ravelry members from blatant piracty.
So now Crochet O’clock is done. She’s gradually removing all her content and taking it elsewhere. She explains why right here.
Hate is perfectly OK if you’re an SJW
A final irony: As of today, F**k Trump knitting patterns are still available to Ravelry’s logged-in members. Here’s a snapshot of a few of them.
WalkAway from Ravelry
A selection of Ravelry F*** Trump projects still available for members of the site. Fair and balanced policies for knitters.
The link to these patterns is here. Or at least it was the last time I looked. But they are available only to logged-in members. Looks like work by SJW supremacists is A-OK with Ravelry.
But it’s not OK for quite a few Ravelry members who are sick and tired of fake news and hyper-partisan politics.
On Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere, comments clearly indicate that a goodly number of Ravelry members are leaving the site and taking their patterns with them as a result of the site’s new, virtue-signaling policy.
Any sensible site catering to knitting hobbyists and professionals would have been better off by gently discouraging all blatantly political commentary. And perhaps even highly politicized knitting patterns as well. Yet Ravelry has chosen sides, caving to the PC Police and the assorted SJWs dedicated to insulting and alienating roughly half of all American citizens. But as other virtue-signaling corporations are discovering, there’s a price to pay for driving away roughly fifty percent of your real and potential customers.
ESPN and Ravelry: Two peas in a failed business pod
Ask ESPN what all that sports network’s race-baiting over the past few years did to their viewership numbers. Right. This nonsense put them in a subscriber-losing tailspin from which the once premier sports network has yet to recover. Why? Because sports fans who ponied up the ever-increasing price of an ESPN subscription package were paying to see sports, not another clone of CNN’s stable of fake news clowns.
Ravelry may be about to discover the same business truth. Avid, longtime members of this site want to knit and promote their latest patterns. They’re into knitting, not political hate. In other words, they’re generally not on Ravelry to climb on their political soapboxes. Hence, the spontaneous WalkAway from Ravelry movement is now in process.
So how is a policy that defames and drives away so many of your current and potential customers good for any business? Inquiring minds would like to know.
—Headline image: Knitting Grandma. Image via Pixabay.com is in the public domain, CC 0.0 license.
By the way, Yeb, here’s the donate link!
https://freerepublic.com/donate/
Please clap! I mean, donate!
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A friend told me yesterday she canceled her account because of this lunacy
Why support any company that literally HATES YOU and HATES AMERICA?
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1012-ravelry-gets-funding-from-its-own-community
They received $71,000 from their members for infrastructure back in 2008. Now their kicking members off the platform. I wonder how many donated, just to get kicked off years later.
Soon, the only ones remaining will be the cat ladies that can only knit one thing... left-handed pussy hats.
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Closed my account.
I’ll recommend to similar FReepers to join fiberocity.
They have project pages soon, I hear.
This is great news. I would love to see the idiots who run R***ly fall on their faces.