Sandi Gardiner harassment False Flag op *UPDATED*

UPDATE: A previous version had an incorrect link for GOA's new Twitter a/c

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So out of the Blue on 08/11, mere days before Gamescom 2016, Sandi Gardiner, "VP of Marketing" for Star Citizen posted on Twitter that she was quitting social media.



https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/763804493972660226



It should be noted that since that point in time, she has continued to like and use social media.



This would have only mattered to the Shitizen (the anti-social Star Citizen fans waging an Internet war of attrition against dissenters of the project) sperg horde since most of us don't give a shit either way. However, this time, just like last time, it has proven to be nothing more than more drama, and a pitiful attempt to get Shitizens and anyone who wasn't paying attention to, nor following the Star Citizen train wreck, to point the finger at me. Because, you know, writing and/or talking about a PUBLIC FIGURE who just happens to be an exec and co-creator of what MANY now believe to be the LARGEST on-going SCAM in video game history, is somehow harassment.



So on 08/12, amid a flurry of attacks*, I wrote a blog.



http://www.dereksmart.org/2016/08/star-citizen-war-of-attrition/



Then the usual Shitizens and other clowns started playing the "woman in gaming being harassed" card. Not that anyone EVER considered Sandi to be a "woman in gaming", but I digress. So I shut that one down rather quickly with another blog on 08/14.



http://www.dereksmart.org/2016/08/woman-in-gaming-so-what/



Then I asked the investigative firm that I use, to scrape her entire PUBLIC social media feed, including the Star Citizen ones, to find and provide me with ANY evidence of her EVER being subject to ANY social media - or Internet - harassment. Being the target of all kinds of attacks, death threats, and harassment, throughout my gaming career, it's just something that I don't take lightly.



That, I thought, was the end of that.



Shortly after, the very same people started using the #istandwithsandi hashtag to continue to propagate the lies, as well as point the finger at people who literally had NOTHING to do with ANY harassment.



As these things go, the hashtag got hijacked and was used to set the record straight. That one died a quick and hilarious death.



As if on cue, days later at the Gamescom show in Germany, a group of "fans" showed up with cue cards. I shit you not. Here, take a look.



http://imgur.com/a/7ACPd



That one got hijacked too. Because you know, that's what the Internet does to pretentious clowns with too much time on their hands.



https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/767008027354464256/photo/1



https://twitter.com/SpaceToasterSA/status/767065644865032193/photo/1



https://twitter.com/SpaceToasterSA/status/766988745446871040/photo/1



It didn't end there though. On 08/23, someone posted a Tweet on Discord in which someone purporting to be an ex-backer ($6K+) was now sending Sandi death threats. So I immediately reported it, and asked my follows to report it.



https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/767866488657182720



The Twitter account was new and had created all 9 tweets the same day.



Twitter subsequently suspended it



https://twitter.com/DukeOfGoa/



The actual backer who was refunded, had previously tweeted about that, and there was already a thread on Reddit about it.



https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/4xl2qo/dukeofgoa_gets_a_refund/



While we were pondering whether or not it was in fact real (and not an impostor account), and that an ex-backer was dumb enough to send death threats to a company exec who already had their personal info, Sandi meanwhile decided to - get this - retweet the threats!! No, I'm not kidding.



https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/768067295742689280



And we believe that she did this because i) it's her one and ONLY proof of ANY social media harassment - like EVER ii) I was tagged by the account. So again, this was also about pinning the actions of a third-party on me.



By the end of the day, the conclusion was that Shitizens were most likely running a False Flag op; and using it as a way to give Sandi some evidence of social media harassment, while blaming me, my followers, and the Goons for it. You know, the people who keep calling them out consistently. Remember, their #istandwithsandi bullshit was hijacked right off the bat; which made their Gamescom drama even more hilarious and pathetic. So this was a new wrinkle in their plan.



Of course, knowing how these people have a long standing history of fucking up, they did just that. i) the PI guy came back with ZERO evidence of ANY social media harassment against her ii) there was NO police report filed by Sandi related to any such harassment or the death threat communicated over Twitter.



I was personally hoping that she would have filed a police report, because that would have dragged me into that; and we would finally have our day in court and/or in front of the authorities. Also, it would have involved Twitter; and CA detectives would have carte blanche to delve into the entire farce that is Star Citizen because, at the end of the day, all roads lead to it. I would have immediately involved the FBI.



Then earlier today, someone claiming to be a friend of the ex-backer (who can't post on the RSI forums since his account was refunded and closed already), created a thread to explain that his friend was NOT the one behind the threats, and that the Twitter account was an impostor (a common problem on Twitter).



https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/341607/founder-of-armada-lusitana-duke-of-goa-with-false-account-on-twitter-being-trashed



Shockingly (not!) CIG killed the thread, but you can see his post:



http://i.imgur.com/a/pz9sB.png



The person claiming to be the real ex-backer, also created a new Twitter account



https://twitter.com/Duke_Of_Goa/



This is how things are. This is the lengths that these people will go to. It makes absolutely NO sense that someone who backed this project, and got a FULL refund, would do ANY of this. Especially knowing the consequences. Not to mention the fact that CIG already have their information which could then be used to identify them.



We don't know who ran this op. But I believe that it stems from Sandi Gardiner's FALSE claims of quitting social media due to harassment. Then we come to find out that NO evidence exists of that EVER happening ANYWHERE.



We have seen the effects of how social media can be used to spread false information, ruin people's careers and lives etc. Not to mention how people can run afoul of a mob's actions, which in turn end up putting the blame on a third-party just because they have unpopular opinion. This bullshit is prevalent on Twitter.



For my part, they're fools if they think that ANY of this is going to stop me. As I said in a stream (https://www.twitch.tv/crankycanuck/v/85248244) which I did (I come on about 1hr in) yesterday morning, they simply have NO clue the kind of person they're dealing with. I'm in this for the long haul, and will continue my fight until either they give up, or we reach the final conclusion (it's FUBAR and there is NO saving it) of the Star Citizen fiasco; with me being proven 100% RIGHT.



* want to talk about harassment? My Twitter blocklist is currently at 2,911 entries.



http://dereksmart.com/bin/dsmart_twitter_blocklist.txt



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