Difference between revisions of Explainer:Why you shouldn't support Jake Steiner (endmyopia)
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==Paywalling EM Wiki== | ==Paywalling EM Wiki== | ||
[[File:Paid wiki.png|thumb|450px|All sales pages were updated in two days, definitely a temporary thing and not a permanent way to make more money off of community contributions /s]] | |||
[[File:Selling the wiki.png|thumb|450px|A post made by Jake two days after paywalling the wiki initially]] | |||
Jake placed EM Wiki under a paywall without consulting any editors. He removed all user rights from everyone, making him the sole admin. This alienated many people who had contributed up to this point, and the original creator of the EM Wiki created this site in response, as it seemed like the information on the wiki would be pay to access forever. | Jake placed EM Wiki under a paywall without consulting any editors. He removed all user rights from everyone, making him the sole admin. This alienated many people who had contributed up to this point, and the original creator of the EM Wiki created this site in response, as it seemed like the information on the wiki would be pay to access forever. | ||
Jake claimed he was facing 'six figure lawsuits' from concerned parents online, unhappy that their children were getting eyesight advice from untrustworthy sources online. Within two weeks this position had entirely reversed, | Jake claimed he was facing 'six figure lawsuits' from concerned parents online, unhappy that their children were getting eyesight advice from untrustworthy sources online. He also said that he wanted to get the wiki back to being freely available as soon as possible. However, he made sure to update all the sales pages and promotion posts very quickly to make sure the wiki was being monetised. This did not look like a temporary measure, but rather a permanent change in strategy for how the wiki would be visible moving forward. | ||
Within two weeks this position had entirely reversed, coincidentally after this fork of the wiki was established. Original EM Wiki was being promoted even more than it was previously, free to access. This makes it clear Jake decided it was fine to paywall the wiki and lie about the reason, especially as nothing substantive was edited on EM Wiki that would stop a further 'lawsuit' in the future. | |||
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==Censoring everything== | ==Censoring everything== | ||
Jake will readily shut down and ban anything in overt or underhanded ways. These include: | Jake will readily shut down and ban anything in overt or underhanded ways. These include: | ||
Revision as of 14:23, 2 July 2023
 | This page in a nutshell: Jake Steiner paywalled the original wiki at one point, claiming he was facing a 'six figure lawsuit', then completely restored EM Wiki with no substantive changes in response to this copy being made. He has a untrustworthy personality, will lie if it thinks it increases the amount of money he makes, and has made legal and physical threats against the original creator of EM Wiki and this wiki. |
This page contains drama and won't improve your eyesight. Feel free to keep reading if you are interested.
Paywalling EM Wiki
Jake placed EM Wiki under a paywall without consulting any editors. He removed all user rights from everyone, making him the sole admin. This alienated many people who had contributed up to this point, and the original creator of the EM Wiki created this site in response, as it seemed like the information on the wiki would be pay to access forever.
Jake claimed he was facing 'six figure lawsuits' from concerned parents online, unhappy that their children were getting eyesight advice from untrustworthy sources online. He also said that he wanted to get the wiki back to being freely available as soon as possible. However, he made sure to update all the sales pages and promotion posts very quickly to make sure the wiki was being monetised. This did not look like a temporary measure, but rather a permanent change in strategy for how the wiki would be visible moving forward.
Within two weeks this position had entirely reversed, coincidentally after this fork of the wiki was established. Original EM Wiki was being promoted even more than it was previously, free to access. This makes it clear Jake decided it was fine to paywall the wiki and lie about the reason, especially as nothing substantive was edited on EM Wiki that would stop a further 'lawsuit' in the future.
Censoring everything
Jake will readily shut down and ban anything in overt or underhanded ways. These include:
- Saying that Endmyopia doesn't get to the point
- Talking about other eyesight improvement methods
- Demoting your forum rank without telling you if you say something Jake doesn't like
- Privating the entire /r/endmyopia subreddit because someone posted a link to this wiki
He will go onto make personal attacks against people who do these things in a snarky, passive aggressive way.
Personal attacks, plutonium-laden rants
Jake threatened to turn the original creator of the EM Wiki, who did an enormous amount of work for free, into a Utah Nuclear Testing Ground for making this wiki fork.
He claims to have spent over five figures in legal fees to shut this website down.