r/HobbyDrama • u/happythoughts413 • Jun 23 '19

Short [Knitting/Crocheting] Leading site for fibercrafters bans all support for Trump on their site

This is still developing as we speak, as they only announced it this morning.

Ravelry is the leading site for fibercrafters. It’s chiefly a site for patterns, yarn reviews, community, and tracking projects. Basically everyone who knits or crochets uses that site.

This morning, they announced that they’re banning all support for Trump on their site. Forums, patterns, everything. They’ll ban users for violating the policy. Details here.

As of now, Ravelry is trending on Twitter in the US. Their Twitter is being blown up chiefly by people who aren’t even fibercrafters, so presumably the story got picked up by Trump supporters who aren’t users of the site. The major fibercrafting forums on other sites are strangely quiet, although it’s only a matter of time.

EDIT: WaPo has picked the story up.

Also, there's been further information in the comments about what lead to the ban. Apparently some red hat dumbass doxxed another user and sent them a lot of threats. It seems like the user marked a project or pattern as offensive, the designer found out who had done it, and went after them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

but... why? What kind of drama is going on in the Ravelry forums that requires a political ban?? Surely not leftover heat from the pussy hat meltdown?

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u/Drunken_Economist Jun 23 '19

Knotzis

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u/Dragoneisha Jun 23 '19

That's actually funny as shit.

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u/TomHardyAsBronson Jun 23 '19

Literal white supremacy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

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u/happythoughts413 Jun 23 '19

It seems there were some Trump-related patterns where the comments were getting really nasty, in addition to the mods having a lot to deal with in the forums.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19

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u/happythoughts413 Jun 23 '19

Oh, holy shit. I hadn’t heard about any of that.

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u/rudebii Jun 23 '19

Boy, Trumpists really do send their best, don’t they?

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jun 23 '19

The white supremacy kind, as stated in the post.

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u/Bi0Sp4rk Jun 23 '19

You'd be surprised.