Ever since our post on Randi Harper’s Bully Review, the Twitterverse has exploded. It appears we have stumbled upon a rather nasty bully who has been at this for a while and who – wait for it – is “the CEO of The Online Abuse Prevention Initiative(OAPI) and partner of the Crash Override Network.” It is also listed on her .
Today, we’ve been inundated with emails and comments on our blog about Randi’s online behavior:
Just to let you guys know, Randi Harper is the CEO of The Online Abuse Prevention Initiative(OAPI) and partner of the Crash Override Network(CON, yes, that’ really the acronym) against online bullying and has as least one “ally” at Twitter support who bans people she(Randi) deems as offensive..
Yes, the CEO an anti-online abuse organization is the same one pictured in the above tweets/reviews harassing and bullying people and is supported by Twitter..
Let that sink in..
And this:
Randi Harper has been at this for quite a while, and not only with book authors:
http://www.ship2block20.com/hidden-face-hypocrisy-randi-harper/
http://www.ship2block20.com/the-hidden-face-of-hypocrisy-randi-harper-part-2/
http://www.ship2block20.com/the-hidden-face-of-hypocrisy-randi-harper-part-3/Regarding Ginmar, I don’t know if you know about this case/author, she was apparently following him around for the better part of several months and he was desperate:
And this:
As someone who has also been targeted by Randi and some of her sadly deranged followers (they have threatened to rape me, throw acid in my face, put me in a woodchipper alive, etc.), I am very glad that Stop the Good Read Bullies has brought this to surface.
She is indeed a very well-connected individual, such as within the Twitter community, and abuses her “anti-bully/harassment” power to perpetrate the highest forms of bullying and harassment. I ask that you please remain vigilant and cautious with this as she will now not only target this author, but STGRB and Ms. Anne Rice for speaking out about this. (In fact, I know she’s already called out Ms. Rice as I’ve seen the tweet.)
Furthermore, as a writer myself, I’m glad that your organization exists to protect blossoming artists from threats that they may not be able to manage/handle themselves. Thank you.
And this:
Harper is one of the truly evil people in this world. I don’t throw that adjective around lightly either. I’ll call someone terrible, disgusting, twisted, as that often reflects the core of the individual at the time. But people can change from being terrible. I’m not so sure about evil and that’s what’s deep within Harper. She actively seeks out people to target and harass. Finds the weakest person that’s gone through emotional situations and demands her followers attack them based on falsehoods she constructs.
In the author’s case he’s successful in his voice where she failed. He’s making money on the same principals Randi claims she stands behind. This would normally mean she should be happy for him and the cause, women in technology being heard. Instead Harper’s evil bares all and she attacks him like a rabid dog using her pack of mongrels as a weapon. Its this sort of action that truly defines someone from just terrible to truly evil, a scourge upon the world.
This sounds familiar. It sounds like a lot of the bullies we’ve dealt with in the past. They all have the same MO. They relentlessly bully others and if anyone criticizes them, they turn around and accuse those people of harassment. Hilariously, Randi has even accused KFC (yes Kentucky Fried Chicken) of stalking and harassing.
According to the article:
Randi Harper herself is no paragon of civic virtue. She has been incarcerated on multiple occasions for what she claims were traffic offences but around which much more salacious rumours swirl, say games industry insiders. Harper denied on Saturday night that there was any more to her arrests, or the time she has spent behind bars, than her driving violations.
Wow! Just wow!
We heard about all of this today when, apparently overnight, Twitter erupted into a war after Anne Rice tweeted about our article on Randi’s bully review.
Since then, Randi has taken to Twitter to revile her:
She’s even trying to strong-arm Amazon into re-publishing her nasty review:
Good luck, Randi. You’ll need it.
So… let this be fair warning. Please, give this bully a very wide berth and steer clear of her. It’s easy to have an enjoyable experience online as long as you know who to avoid.
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I’ve had occasion to document Randi’s abuse and harassment of creators before. Thought that you may find these relevant.
Keep fighting the good fight. I support you 100%
OAPI and Peronal Bias
https://storify.com/Advocationist/oapi-and-personal-bias
Plausible Deniability and Harassment (She tends to get others to do the dirtier parts of her work for her.)
https://storify.com/Advocationist/plausable-deniability-and-harrasment
Bless you for posting this, this person has been harassing our community for months and because of their connections, they claim we’re the one harassing her, despite her never showing a screed of proof and the overabundant proof of the vile attacks & accusations she constantly makes
She’s already doing the same thing here, accusing Anne of harassing her and acting like she’s the victim, I’m just glad someone outside our group can see it happening, because once she rallies her mob in hate against you, they wont put down the pitchforks to talk.
I’ve dealt with thugs as her before. I hope she gets what she deserves as she truly is a hypocritic evil monster.
She’s done this quite a lot to a lot of people, here she is trying to bully programmer Ted Neward out of the industry:
And here is his alleged “target” Iris Classon telling Randi to leave him (and her) alone: http://archive.is/g2556
These are left wing activists who are pushing Cultural Marxism in every industry, hobby, and institution. They are often referred to as Social Justice Warriors. They have a lot of power, institutional connections, and even Obama himself repeats their catch phrases and propaganda on television. They are trying to usurp positions of power everywhere and turn everything into a Marxist infested and pushing platform. Look out for key words that they use to shut down anyone threatening their power grabs: racist, homophobe, bigot, misogynist, hate, transphobe, old fashioned, etc.
Interesting. Many of us here are left-wing, but we don’t resort to that kind of crap.
That’s because the Left wing party has been hijacked by these nutbags. What is going on now has been well documented by the conservative party for over 20 years. This is nothing new to us.
It’s funny, my best friend was always right-wing conservative and I considered myself left-wing liberal. We watched his party be infested by the tea party and religious zealots, and he became more centrist. Now with the slimy growth of SJW in the left wing I find myself moving away from those people and identifying as more centrist.
These are far left radicals. There are many left-wing people who don’t like them. It’s not a left vs right issue. It’s authoritarian vs libertarian, and they are as authoritarian as it comes. They will silence you if it doesn’t fit their ideology.
For example me. Even my dad finds people like these absolutely nuts. This was not was liberal or conservative was suppose to be about.:/ It’s depressing.
Most of us who’ve had contact with Ms. Harper before have done so through gamergate. Despite what you may have heard, two polls at various points showed GG skewing heavily toward left and libertarian in a four axis graph of Left, Right, Libertarian and Authoritarian. We’re a big group and those on the right delight in associating the fringe left with the political left for some easy points but rest assured that Harper and her ilk are decidedly not liberal in the old sense of the term. They are illiberal as fuck, in practice.
Randi does claim to be registered Republican. However, as a conservative, I don’t recognize any conservative values in Randi.
I tend to consider myself heavily left-leaning. Still, I think Harper and those like her are opportunists, the worst kind of neo-trolls. They don’t advocate diversity or equality, the provoke and inflame for the sake of Patreons, Kickstarters and the nefarious form of “street cred” it gives them on twitter.
Meanwhile, real women’s issues get ignored and literally hundreds of thousands of dollars are diverted from doing real good to fund diatribes about invented “new” forms of misogyny, harassment and bigotry.
There’s are those who watch them and support the people that become targets for the high-crime of disagreeing with them, but even they have become mis-labeled and ostracized for their efforts.
As Randi and those like her turn their attention towards people who have bought and paid heavy prices for the influence and authority they weild, I hope a wider audience becomes educated about what is really going on.
A genuine question here, what real women’s issues are getting ignored? I’ve never heard anyone accuse them of that before.
I believe that poster was implying that all of the gender issues being discussed right now
are legitimate, but people like Randi Harper are merely using them as a talking point to
stir up controversy in order to elicit sympathy and donations to Patreon and Kickstarter.
So rather than that time, money, and attention being spent finding solutions to
the problems, which do indeed exist, the resources are being squandered on arguments
and personal donations that only serve to enrich these glorified “trolls”, such as Randi.
Real diversity should be striving for all people to work together. Unfortunately many of
these new figureheads who claim to promote diversity have simply traded one form of bias
for another.
Real women’s issues are ignored because we’re seen as fringe like that crazy bat.
She’s always been an attention whore. A decade+ ago she’d regularly prostitute herself (irl & cam) for ops on IRC. She’s still as pathetic now. For some reason someone archived the vids & logs of her antics and I heard they’ll hit the internet in the coming days.
She really is the perfect example of an irredeemable person.
It’s the exact same thing that’s happened in the gaming community in the last year and also in the skeptic community about a year before that. Both of those groups are largely left-wing and liberal. But these extreme authoritarian types just utterly tear the communities to shreds by randomly accusing people of sexism (which sadly a lot of decent people end up believing)
Yea I’ve personal born witness to various cult like skeptics as well. Skeptic isn’t a newspeak term, but it’s treated like it.
Same with these new fringe liberals. I’m liberal, but not that liberal.
Yes, many, many people Randi has targeted are liberals as well. In fact, since the kind of rhetoric she uses to bully people revolves around “social justice issues”, it’s far more likely to be effective against other liberals. She represents what I think is an attack on the left from within itself.
Get use to being called a conservative. I’m a Liberal Feminist Canadian and have never voted conservative in my life. I’m supporting #GamerGate, which questioned the gaming medias unethical practices. First thing the gaming media did was publish a ton of stories about how #GamerGate was a right-wing anti-feminist MRA movement harassing women in the industry. They linked threats some critics received from trolls and said it was #GamerGate doing it. The main stream media picked up on it and it’s been non-stop crazy for 10 months now.
I didn’t know what a Social Justice Worrier was before, but they’re real, and they’re nuts. They’ll do anything to be the one’s in control and shutdown discussion of anything they don’t like. Doxing, threatening, lying, blockbots, accuse people they don’t like of being pedophiles, it just never ends. The worst part though is the media, all of it, is on their side. Journalists won’t do ANYTHING more than scratch the surface and label everything misogyny. I don’t know if it’s because they’re SJW themselves or if they’re afraid of what the SJW will do to them.
Anyway, you’re about to find yourselves on the wrong side of a lot of trouble. Good luck.
Go home, /pol/. You’re drunk.
Thank you so much for highlighting this. I’ve been on her blockbot for months now for simplying having a different opinion than her and following “the wrong people”.
As a writer/aspiring author, and someone who’s witnessed her in action numerous times over the last nine months, I could kiss you people for posting and following up on this.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you cats do here.
Oh wow. I’ve now spent the better part of an hour reading this post, the previous one, and some of the links provided about this Randi Harper. That was a lot of crap to take in at once. I can’t see how she’s certified sane! The woman is a nutball! She should have her head examined by headshrinks! This kind of behavior is not normal, this is someone who’s seriously mentally ill! Where is her family? Why haven’t they had her committed? Drugs and therapy might help her. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s killed small animals just to see them in pain. This is a scary one.
I realize my comment is a little “out there” – but I seriously suspect mental illness with this woman.
It seems relatively common in Twitter unfortunately. I’ve had to slowly back away to other networks cause of people like Randi.
Like they’re equating me with libertarian, meninist, you name it.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s killed small animals”
Not exactly, but something similar. She has dyed her dog blue (and other colors, i think, at different times) and posted pictures online. Dyed completely from head to toe. This is considered animal abuse and is extremely harmful. The chemicals get into their mouth, eyes, nose, etc and cause great discomfort. She, on the other hand, seemed to take a sadistic pleasure in it.
In my book, animal cruelty is much worse than outright killing the animal. Making it suffer for the sake of her amusement? She’s insane, and this just confirms it.
Wait, is that for real?
Is what for real? That I feel better about an animal not having to suffer torture? Or that she’s insane? Isn’t her sanity in question here with all these comments and the story written about her?
Oh no, is it for real she did cruel things to animals.
Thank you for standing up to her lies. I say this with no hyperbole: She is one of the most vicious people I have ever encountered on the internet.
This is quite the read. I have seen her “work” of harassment all over twitter, and different platforms as well, abusing people while containing a higher status. This person is a menace to all and she will throw her ‘dogs’ at anyone who disagrees with her and/or people whom she doesn’t approve off even they haven’t had any form of interactions with. She will continue her rampage while playing the victim card and laugh it all up as she puts good people out of their jobs, humiliate them, and bully them. Oh and hope any invisible force of goodness help you if you ever block her before she has anything to say about you, she will go on about and mention you till her fingers “bleed” on her keyboard or sends her followers on to you. I know I have repeated myself here, but all I know she is prepping herself for a big fall and the lies she spreads, and thinking that she is in charge of everything and the spokeswoman of all women in the world.
“you have to stop thinking that you’re in charge and start thinking that you’re having a dance. We used to think we’re smart, but nobody is smarter than the interenet. One of the things we learned pretty early on is ‘Don’t ever, ever try to lie to the internet – because they will catch you. They will de-construct your spin. They will remember everything yo uever say for eternity.” – Gabe Newell.
If this Randi Harper person has a criminal record, shouldn’t that be a matter of public record? Remember a certain Bad Santa (real name omitted for fear of insane litigiousness) whose record as a convicted drug dealer was discovered by an observant person on Amazon? It’s interesting how many of these bully trolls are coming out as being actual, real life criminals.
It is somewhat a matter of public record. as near as anyone can tell she has been arrested several times in the past for drug offenses. Mainly in Cobb County Georgia. The IRS also may have filed an arrest warrant against her in 2013 for $39,000.
Yeah, you’ll soon discover Harper is a hard core career criminal if you research her. Squandering money and dying her hair that horrendous shade of blue and drowning her pets in chemical dyes. Pretty evil witch. Big time crackhead, with a long rap sheet.
its actually the troll Ginmar who is instigating this from behind the scenes https://imgur.com/hiVM1pf
This doesn’t surprise me one bit. They’re all linked together. For someone who claims to be stalked and doxxed she sure does stalk and attempt to doxx (and complains when people use their real name so she CAN’T doxx them) a whole lot. If she didn’t have her persecution complex she’d have nothing at all.
true evil considers itself the hero
Even though this was posted above, take a moment or two to let this sink in again:
“Randi Harper is the CEO of The Online Abuse Prevention Initiative(OAPI) and partner of the Crash Override Network(CON, yes, that’ really the acronym) against online bullying”
OAPI is a supposedly ANTI-BULLYING organization (read “scam”) which is currently trying to obtain 501(c) statuts to become a recognized (and tax exempt) CHARITY.
That’s the kind of individual Randi Harper is – no need to say anything further…
Right, she’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, or at least she’s trying to be.
Is she really connected to Twitter in some capacity other than a user? Why would twitter work with a bully such as her?
She has a mysterious “friend” in the Twitter “Safety” division. It’s how she gets those that disagree with her there suspended, censored, and shut down.
http://www.reaxxion.com/6446/how-randi-harper-uses-her-ties-to-twitter-executive-del-harvey-to-silence-other-women
Several troubling instances of someone at Twitter supporting Randi’s behaviour have occurred. The worst was this:
That’s the account of the journalist who wrote “The Hidden Face of Hypocrisy” posts linked to in the OP, whose account reactivation was conditional on deleting posts critical of Harper. They were originally suspended when mass reports from you-can-probably-guess+followers flooded Twitter support.
Why does anyone even recommend twitter now for author social media due to stuff like this?
One of Randi’s friends, and known corrupt journalist / Jeopardy champion, Arthur Chu has just posted another bully review attacking the author without reading the book.
A few cases of Randi Harpers abuse have already been mentionend and even sourced here, but really made me disgusted with her and convinced that she is a true powermad bully, not just a misguided ass (pardon my french) not quite aware of the responsibilities of her influence are the Cases of the Twitter Users Claire_Schuman, CandiceLikesYou and a friend of the latter whose name I can’t remember right now, whose only crimes were voicing some slight worry about her behavior, just to get accused of various things and Retweeted ’till the hordes of Randis enablers descendet upon them.
There’s also Chris von Csefalvay. He’s back now, but he got in an disagreement with Randi that escalated until either another one of Randis enablers or a particularly vile internet-troll attracted by the uproar (let’s be honest, that happens too) voiced threats to Chris’ wife that were bad enough that he left Twitter. Even if Randi Harper didn’t do that herself, she sure showed no remorse over it.
And this guys crime? His interest as a professional statistican was peaked by the infamous #GamerGate Hashtag and he came to conclusions Randi Harper didn’t like.
She’s a sick, sick women, but many people think her a hero for writing a simple Twitter-blockbot (that happens to use vile names like “Monster” and “Stalker” for its variables, btw).
I’m scared of her. Not for myself, but for what she can do to more vulnerable people that get on her bad side.
I’m convinced people like Harper, Ginmar, Mahala, Trout, (to name just a few of the old crones) are all direct descendants of the Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler. LOL.
No, honestly I don’t think they’re that smart. And that’s not a complement to the former.
This is Randi Harper doing her “anti-bullying” thing…
http://imgur.com/SmP8Yym
She once stalked a data scientist for four months until he had to leave twitter because his data was better than hers. Actually, she didn’t have any data. But you know, potato potato.
I hope she knows someone at Amazon cause there’s no way the department that monitors reviews is going to reinstate what she wrote.
Amazon reviews are for feedback on your experience with the actual product, not passive aggressive stuff against the author.
Wanna know something really funny?
She calls herself a “fu**ing superhero”. With no tongue in cheek.
It’s not so much funny than it is sad, disturbing, and depressing.
Just two weeks ago, I personally observed Harper bully a Twitter user who had previously confessed to feeling suicidal, to the point that I and others were seriously concerned for her wellbeing. Thankfully, our worries were misplaced, but you can read her account of the incident here: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sm8voo
It appears people are now trying to undermine this site’s reputation with the Web of Trust. It has been voted down as a hate site which is dangerous for children. Regular readers will no doubt recognise this as nonsense. I have tried to fix this, but am only a single person, and I suggest that readers and owner seek to rectify this injustice by voting at mywot.com.
Here’s the url:
OK, I’ve added my vote to the Web of Trust: “This site (stopthegrbullies.com) documents examples of the behavior of online trolls, particularly members of Goodreads and the forums on Amazon.com, who wage vendettas against self-published authors (and against more famous authors who have spoken candidly about these trolls, particularly Anne Rice). A number of the trolls exposed on the site have waged a propaganda war against StopTheGRBullies.com (STGRB for short) to convince people who are not regular visitors that the site is a hate site. STGRB is not a hate site. STGRB does not encourage vendettas or counterattacks against the people the site talks about. The site discusses trolls in order to warn people against engaging with them online.”
Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
I love video games and books. Racists and sexists like Randi Harper won’t leave me or my hobbies alone. Thanks everyone for taking a stand.
That’s what gets me, I mean the only “authors politics” I even know about are these particularly vocal twitter bullies.
Would Edgar Allen Poe have done this? … Not likely!
It’s actually hilarious that you bring up Edgar Allen Poe. He may have been the FIRST author to be verifiably trolled by one of his critics, Rufus Wilmot Griswold.
LOL
Griswold was the man who wrote of Poe when he died “Edgar Allan Poe is dead. He died in Baltimore the day before yesterday. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it.”
Well as far as Ginmar goes, she recently lost her amazon review of “Stealing a Cowboys Heart.” Because even though she hadn’t read it she declared 48 pages for a book that bills itself as a short read to be “to short to be a book.”
The review has since been taken down after an individual who shall remain nameless reported it & then pointed out to Ginmar herself that it was a false review. After 4 pages of her trying to find excuses for why this non review was tote a real review, either amazon or Ginmar herself deleted it.
An this is not the only book she’s given a one star review that she hasn’t read that this brave individual has pointed out her bullshit on.
Oh & I’ve just got confirmation her false review of Lost Memory of Skin was also taken down today.
And now Harper and her attack dogs are going after your site through Web of Trust.
But Anne Rice is totally the bully here, right?
A follow up with some of the deleted reviews.
Those deleted reviews are very old though.
I would just like to leave you with yet another tidbit of info on this bully.
Here you have an example of Claire Schumann doing an AMA (AskMeAnything) on the #GamerGate-reddit (titled KotakuInAction) and trying to engage with people herself and without demonizing them from the get go.
In it she mentions that she had a falling out with Twitter user (a self-admitted pedophile going as low as the age of four) and a bully and harasser.
You can see some the conversation here: https://archive.is/xBcha
So because she thinks that picking out solitary tweets of people and blaming a group of thousands of people is unfair that must mean she’s not 100% buying everything she’s fed that must mean she is the enemy.
Here’s her argument with Randi: https://archive.is/uONTK
Well, as you might expect thinking for yourself is something you definitely do not want when you’re trying to control the narrative so she literally bullied her to tears and then blocked her which caused her to leave twitter altogether.
http://i.imgur.com/8fSr9jv.png
All the while getting bullied from Randi’s “friends” http://i.imgur.com/Z8Sbyzu.png
This literally “groupthink”. If you’re not with us, you’re against us. It’s also sickening and reeks since Randi pretends to protect people, when all she did was create a blacklist (later renamed to blocklist because blacklists are illegal) that literally blocks by association. “If you follow somebody I disagree with you must be the enemy”. That’s right, she’s actively working on creating an echo chamber in which nobody can engage with “the enemy”, thereby furthering the divide.
https://archive.is/bKpNJ
And then when Mark Kern one of the developers of World of Warcraft (among others) came in and was open minded she simply added all of his followers to said blocklist.
http://i.imgur.com/lo0zDom.jpg
I have left my email and twitter-handle, you can gladly contact me on any of the raised issues if you require more information.
Randi Harper has been a bully for years. I’m glad some one is finally calling her out on it. She’s doxxed and hacked, and destroyed entire livelyhoods for no reason at all.
What a time for her to say she’s going “off grid.”
Source:
Considering how hypocritical she comes across, good riddance. Oh and to be clear, yes I know why people hate windows. That’s like common knowledge now.
LOL! I just read that part about those psychos accusing KFC of harassing them!!! That is absolutely comical! What a bunch of paranoid schizos. As if a big company like KFC could even care less about that bunch of losers. LOL!!!!