An Appeal To Randi Harper: You Obviously Don’t Wish To Be Associated With The Bad Actors, So Please Turn Informant GethN7 Follow Aug 27, 2016 · 2 min read

(I found out shortly after writing this story Randi Harper’s response to this article was to flatly reject my offer, defend Crash Override, and to insult me. Regardless, she still has my prayers and I do hope she eventually reconsiders.)

I’m writing this because, despite some obvious ideological differences, Randi Harper and I have been able get along quite well in our interactions, I do find some of her writing quite good, and to be blunt, she’s probably the sanest, most levelheaded person on the “other side” by a wide margin.

So, I respectfully request she do as Ian Miles Cheong has done and turn informant on people she obviously and sensibly does not want association with. In fact, Ms. Harper, I don’t blame you at all, the scum who have been exposed so far I sure as hell wouldn’t want to shake the hands of, and since you’ve proven honorable enough to call out people like Kimberly Crawley when she tried to harass Brad Glasgow and honorably defended Jesse Singal’s good name and unmasked the pettiness and stupidity of Nora Reed when she hijacked Candace Owens former account, I implore you to again step up and help call out these people whom the leaks have revealed are hypocrites of the highest order and whose words have been proven lies time and again.

But I also have another reason: Compared to someone like Quinn, who has said a lot about combating harassment but runs a sham service and has cheated on every principle she espoused, you have actually done something by the blocklist you created, which by contrast actually serves the intended purpose of helping people shut out what is deemed harassment by a much more effective means than the hollow, farcical solutions offered by Quinn’s aptly named CON. Further, you have also wisely removed yourself from the shittiness many of these people have been involved in by a very wide margin, and while we may never be friends, I’d like to hope, our obvious differences aside, you can see the benefit in keeping any antagonism to a minimum.

And, to level with you, selling out these scumbags is probably the best way to keep their shit from sticking to you, and I can’t see any reason to show these people any loyalty, especially because a lot of them have turned on you for the incidents mentioned above where you put good sense above ideology and did the right thing, so please, consider doing so once more and throw these scummy assholes into the pit they rightly belong.

And no, I don’t think you’ll ever agree with anyone who is pro-Gamergate, and I won’t insult your convictions by asking you consider that, but I do ask, for pragmatic reasons, that you consider this appeal, because I offer it in good faith.

And I look forward to more of your technical writing in any event, I find it quite interesting.