Perry, she is welcome to offer an alternate view but my problem is with her lying and abusive behavior. Rich always took the time to answer her constant emails about economic stuff and advice on starting a website. He was very patient (too patient) when she started spreading UNTRUE rumors about his private financial history and basically calling him a liar, and he even let her stay on the forum despite this behavior. He smacked her down on the forums a couple times, but considering the things she said to him, he has been incredibly patient with her.
After all that, for some reason we don’t understand at all, she started personally attacking Rich and spreading lies about him.
– She makes it seems like Rich rules this site like a tyrant, that he won’t accept criticism, and she calls him a “self-anointed guru.” The fact is that he has never banned a user, not even ps, except for comment spammer bots. And he never deleted a non-spam post, with one exception: when powayseller herself demanded it because she claimed it contained private info about her, and Rich gave her the benefit of the doubt. That’s the only post he ever deleted. And anyone who has talked with Rich knows that he is fine with people questioning his arguments and he actually likes it because it makes the arguments stronger.
– Rather than taking any responsibility for purposely starting untrue rumors about Rich’s history of real estate transactions and insulting his integrity, she completely mischaracterizes what happened in the that one thread and makes it sound like Rich is some sort of irrational and insecure hothead. Yes, she pissed him off. She pissed him off because she posted false info about him, and even though he asked her to stop she continued and then purposely started a false rumor with the intent to back him into a corner of giving out personal info he didn’t want to give. It was amoral and incredibly mean-spirited and Rich should have banned her on the spot, but he didn’t. Now she claims he “lost it” because she said he missed the boom, which is an outright lie. Go dig up the thread if you are interested and you will see.
– What she says are “mistakes” that she corrected in the voiceofsandiego letter are just different interpretations she had. The wrong interpretations, in my opinion, but I can see the difference between different interpretations and “mistakes.”
So Perry, if people want to disagree with Rich or even say he’s wrong or an idiot that’s fine. But she has personally attacked him despite his patience with her antics and worse she has published outright lies with the intent to make him look bad. Her behavior is disgusting and I think zk is right on with his diagnosis, especially the part about her taking advantage of others.
For new people, if you are wondering how I know all this stuff, it’s because Rich is my husband and I can tell you he is upset about her inexplicable personal vendetta against him and the lies she is spreading. On the positive side, thanks to everyone who has offered words of support here at at the voiceofsandiego. I really appreciate your coming to the defense of Rich and he does too. Rich wanted to make sure I mentioned his gratitude. The nice things people said are the one bright spot in this whole ugly mess.
