More in the broader sense of, "Some people seem to be giving him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps you should reconsider that decision, as he has demonstrated that he gives exactly no fucks about other people on at least one occasion."

I'd be inclined not to bother unless it becomes more directly relevant. But I like the low-profile, low-drama.

More in the broader sense of, "Some people seem to be giving him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps you should reconsider that decision, as he has demonstrated that he gives exactly no fucks about other people on at least one occasion."

I tend to agree with this (as I said on Natter this afternoon). I do think that Gus/Eddie's history of being not just flexible with the truth but actively malicious to an online community is relevant to the Troper community. In fact, I don't actually believe that Eddie is trying very hard to save those pages in the face of Google's algorithm. I don't believe anything he says in public.

I'm with Dana. He's probablyy making a shit ton of money off of ideas that he, (as I understand), at the very gleaned from b.org under an assumed name and then faked his death. At the very least, I want that effer discredited.

I don't know what even bringing the story to light would change but it does piss me off that he's profiting. Just because I think he's a terrible person. And I don't mind people knowing that about him.

But beyond being somewhat therapeutic for those of us who still sting or just hold grudges, I don't know what changes. Unless we can make people stop going to Tropes and never speak of it again. Can we do that? That'd be awesome.

I think we ought to just let it go already. There may be people over there who quite like him who will feel compelled to come over her and do the right thing as they see it.

They might have their own problems with him, as we did. I would reserve getting involved until his next pseudocide.

I'd be inclined not to bother unless it becomes more directly relevant. But I like the low-profile, low-drama.

This.

I consider that bridge well and truly burned and I don't have any interest in sifting through the ashes, much less showing the ashes to anyone else.

I'm not going to lie, the thought crosses my mind in general from time to time, but I don't know what it has to do with this.

I'm not saying I'm not gonna snap one day if no one has done so beforehand. I'm just saying that if you're sharing the information and saying you're doing it because of *that*, you might get some side-eying from the audience assembled. But there will be side-eying anyway--no doubt he has his swelling ranks of faithful.

I say we sue him for copyright infringement on the basis that TV Tropes was Hec's idea in the first place. Then we use the money to buy a private island.