Quote Originally Posted by cephdon View Post
@steadcraft

:-) I hope you recognize the irony here...

You claim to be the victim of fraud, essentially the same as Rylan. You express frustration and disappointment the same as Rylan. In fact, all of the distrust you spout towards Rylan can just as easily be said to you. Do you see that?

You are a stranger on the Internet. You claim to have lost more than $600, but where is the proof? Any proof you can think of showing me, I can find a way to say you faked it.

As far as I can tell, the only thing I know for sure is that you are using this moment to promote your blog. Probably because you either have advertising on it or because your selling something or both. That means you are not in a position to make impartial claims because it might not drive as many eyeballs to your site.

Here is the big difference between you and Rylan though, you gain by claiming to be a victim where he loses. By admitting the situation, and subsequently releasing the repositories, he loses any advantage they might have provided. By association with the fraudulent individual, he loses trust and his brand and reputation are harmed. He gains nothing from the release of this information. You use it to promote your blog, which seemingly could provide financial gain.

People so often get caught up in their emotions and in the moment that they begin pointing fingers at anyone and everyone. It's so easy to do, especially on the Internet. I don't expect that you will change your mind, but I do hope you appreciate the difference in perspective and how it can lead to various interpretations of motive.
I'm an independent maker. I'm also a writer and an educator. I make an effort to understand the world around me and to share that with people. Rylan told us all last week that we are victims of fraud. That is not my claim. I would be all over the Kickstarter comments if I was a backer there and I would do the same if I was an indiegogo backer. As it happens, I backed on Backerkit, and my experience there exposes holes in that system. One of them being that there is no such comment forum. Another being that they have no legal definition of pre-order. We all learn from our experiences--and in different ways. I am engaging community because it is part of how I understand what has happened here.

As far as who I am--I'm a real person with a website with my name on it that I built in like 1999. But I don't know who you are. I'm using my real name on the internet because I don't want to be an anonymous troll. I link to my website for the same reason.

As far as Rylan's situation, it is sort of puzzling. But I don't really feel like speculating. I just don't feel like being very trusting. I'd like to hear David Boe's side of the story now. I'd like to see the legal authorities put together a clear picture. I really would like to just see the Peachy print an actual 3D model start to finish. I don't expect it to be perfect, but we keep hearing that it works.

I'd get over this if it was just a failed project--I'm a creator too and I understand the challenges. The thing that really gets me here is the crazy allegations and the emotional appeal for more funds. I've tried to be very balanced and explain why I have believed in Rylan and Peachy, as well as the facts that make me struggle to do so now. The last thing I would want to do is to undermine a project that I believed in by spreading misinformation. That is why I am sticking to questions regarding the facts.

As far as that goes, I'd love to see some photos in the forum here from any Beta testers that successfully anything. As far as real people go, it would help me to believe them if they linked to their own professional website or social media page.