A certain amount of this positive feedback from attention and power is unavoidable and may be good for the community but one must also step back and reflect at times on the consequences of what one does and also how will it reflect upon themselves.
If I was privy to this information I would first start a dialogue with the individual to hear their side of the story or either hire and investigator to verify the claims or share the information with authorities. If he has already done all these steps months ago he should have mentioned as much for his own credibility. At no point is it just to blackmail someone with unrelated issues (Or are you suggesting did KNC miner paid the membership fee with pre-pubescent girls for the purposes of rape?)
Yeah, I don't think Phin has totally thought this through. If Patrick did step down in response to the allegations, Phin would forever be tainted as someone who knows damaging information about Patrick and is keeping it quiet - something which would reflect very poorly on Phin's own reputation. Do you really want to be viewed as a person who is knowingly covering up for a paedophile, Phin?
And yeah, we've seen this before when people have come across damaging information about prominent members of the community. You're not a crusader for truth if you're willing to suppress that information if your conditions are met - you're part of the problem. You're not going to be remembered by anyone else as the person who forced the bad guy of the moment to pack up his ball and go home. I've seen you get disappointed in the past, Phin, when you have felt the community hasn't valued the effort you've put into trying to connect dots, so try to keep your own ego out of this.
Be very careful here, Phin. You might not have as much leverage as you think and this could bite you in the ass very badly. Make sure you have all your ducks in a row before you escalate this any further. Don't let your ego cloud your judgement here.
Yep. I didn't think this through, acting while pissed off now put my family, some located in other states, possibly in danger, but definitely now in various degrees of depression, one of which was already in a severe state but slowly recovering, but now thanks to my actions, and possibly somebody from Patrick's camp being responsibly, she's relapsed, thus it's prudent I cease communicating on this issue and am about to pass what I have to proper authorities.
I'm now locking this thread, along with the other recent threads that are TBF related.
~Bruno Kucinskas