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Thoughts on this blog post alleging harassment (and worse) against Codesmith?

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u/Gullible_Mousse_4590 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

I’m not shocked. They were a lot more cleaned up when I left. Despite constant interference from you lying online

u/michaelnovati replied · DELETED · archived copy ★ FEATURED
RE: "lying" I think (my opinion) Codesmith execs have some kind bubble around this, where they reinforce this idea to each other, like a Slack channel where they share things I post and pile on to me about it, but there really is another side and you can't see my DMs by definition to see it. I have 1-1 conversations, no coordinated groups, and many people (completely independently) thank me for 'telling the truth' because they didn't want to speak publicly about it at the time (although that could have changed since this blog post because I'm sure people are very fired up now at what they perceive as an 'injustice' against me, not sure since I can't discuss this with any of them anymore). You'd be surprised how much I also defended or played devil's advocate to people who said some pretty negative examples about leader's behavior and I was always trying to explore why or look at from other angles rather than assume bad intent. I really wish Codesmith would give me the benefit of the doubt.