Ravelry

I've been a member of Ravelry since 2008. This is the fourth purge of dissenting voices from the site, the second one this year. During that time, all 11-1/2 years, trolling, stalking, harassing of those dissenting voices has been the norm. That norm, if not actively encouraged, is given tacit approval by Ravelry admin.

Technically, if the website looks mostly like an early 90s bulletin board, that's because it is. Ravelry's archetecture is piggy backed and modified from a 1980s game site. The Rav message boards only added emoticons a couple of years ago and you still have to link off-site or pay Rav a fee to imbed a photograph in a message board post.

The pattern database was limitless, as was the ability to inventory your personal stash.

However, Ravelry's apparent disdain for a large portion of their members is the very antithesis of inclusion and tolerance. Certain Rav members have compiled, passed around, and published on Google docs a list of users, designers, dyers, and bloggers who support Ravelry's intolerance of dissenting views--and they have targeted those who don't. Nice, that. No, not really. My account was suspended for 120 days for daring to point out the hipocrisy. So I downloaded my patterns, cleared out my projects, and deleted my account. Sorry, not sorry.

Finally, about THIS site: why are you UNDERCOUNTING or deleting unfavorable commentary? This morning, there were over 90 1-star reviews. As if this posting, the are fewer than 30. Methinks someone's cooking the books.

Many of the "positive" reviews use the word Nazi. They claim Ravelry is an inclusive and "for humanity" site. Seriously? Suppressing the 1st amendment and stating if you support our current president you are a white supremacist is inclusive? They still allow vulgar patterns about Trump. Designers laugh about people who have left the site and "whine" about not having access to their patterns. I hope I never bought a pattern from one of these disgusting individuals. I truly hope they reap what they have sown. They are obviously low info type voters who still believe our President called white supremacists "good people" in the Charlottesville lie. Networks spliced and diced that speech to make it sound that way. Don't believe me? Research it. Easy to find. Even Jake Tapper of CNN finally admitted President Trump never said that. He was talking about the people who had shown up to try and save the monument not the haters. Your favorite candidate, Biden, opened his campaign on Twitter with that lie. They are all lying to you now about the immigration situation. They have all been for what Trump admin is for but they lie because they can't give him a win. Do you know that Obama was deporting so many they started calling him "The Deporter-In-Chief?" That the Democrats refused to expand the area at the border where the immigrants are housed in crowded cages? That Obama did the same thing with this situation? That Trump has done more for the black community in just a few years than Obama did in his 8? Question? How can you be pro Islam and pro LGBTQ at the same time? Do you know what they do to gays? Trump has also done things to promote LGBTQ community. You would know this if you weren't so full of hate and did a little research. I could continue with this but it probably won't change anything for the bigots on Ravelry. God forgive them for they know not what they do.