Explainer:Why you shouldn't support Jake Steiner (endmyopia)
 | 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. Within two weeks this position had entirely reversed, and after this fork of the wiki was up the 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.