I’ve been asked a few times, so will respond here. I haven’t deleted my Ravelry account yet. I have removed all my projects, stash pictures, etc. Here’s why I haven’t deleted my account yet: I have been mentoring a new spinner on one of the forums. She’s making great progress! I don’t think she lives in the US and I do not have any way to reach her, other than through Ravelry. It’s probably silly of me, but I wanted to give her one last word of encouragement before I delete the account. I did read one of the new forums Ravelry allows, which exists for people to say how much they like the new policy. It convinced me that I really don’t want to be on the same website with those folks. And the forums that I did follow seem to be trying to pretend none of this happened. I guess that’s all they can do.
In case you think that this is just a decision on the part of Ravelry, Reddit shut down The_Donald subreddit. I knew nothing about this site or the group until the run up to the election. They were responsible for a lot of the funny pro-Trump memes you saw. It was just a lot of young guys having fun. The timing of it seems to add to the illusion this is a coordinated event. It will be interesting to see if there are other, unrelated sites that decide it’s time to suppress pro-Trump support.
More on the new project after the weekend. I think I’m making progress but won’t know for sure until I get everything set up.
No, they can leave. They can give their friends their email address and go. They want to stay, and badly, so they will. How horrible Casey is, but look at that great pattern!
They assume the site won’t change. It will and will become even more political.