Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked

An anonymous reader writes "Rachel Marone has been a victim of cyberstalking for over 10 years. In 2011, she had a project on Kickstarter shut down because of the high volume of spam posted by the stalker in the comment section of the project. Recently, Marone's manager spoke to Kickstarter again to see how she could avoid having a new project banned if the cyberstalker showed up again. They replied, 'If there is any chance that Rachel will receive spam from a stalker on her project, she should not create one. We simply cannot allow a project to become a forum for rampant spam, as her past project became. If this happens again, we will need to discard the project and permanently suspend Rachel's account.' On her website, Marone sums up the situation thus: 'I am being told that I cannot crowdfund because I am a stalking victim. ... With so many women being stalking targets this does not seem reasonable to me.'"

Comments

And if it weren't enough

[Hentes]

Now she got Slashdotted too.

Re:First they came for the women

[Ash-Fox]

Then they came for me

So... What are you wearing?

Re:The solution is simple.

[houstonbofh]

I think she is crowd sourcing this...

Re:What's kickstarter and why do I care?

[Ash-Fox]

Unplug the fucking computer from the internet.

I can't, it's wireless!

Re:It's her own fault

[houstonbofh]

And WTF is a "transmedia artist" ? She uses various media, multimedia ?

She is a painter trapped in the body of a sculptor?

Re:First they came for the women

[Fnord666]

Sure. I live in Texas.

Cool

I own several guns.

That was assumed from the previous statement. In fact I thought it was mandatory.

Re:Interesting: marketing.

[Tore S B]

Guerrilla != gorilla. Man am I ever glad you don't work in a zoo.