These have been going around semi-public- distributed without specific restriction on where they go, but through whispernet. I figured an actual post linking them would be useful to let people less connected know what’s going on.

We have an email with a preliminary report from the CFAR Alumni Community Disputes Council in relation to the Brent Dill affair, in this pastebin. Password is mittenscautious, it has been re-redacted to make correlating information harder. Tl;dr they think Brent Dill is not a “bad actor”, that he is “fundamentally oriented towards helping people grow“, and recommend CFAR leadership against barring him from CFAR spaces. Also, the version I got was already redacted by someone earlier in the process, but people who directly received it report that the ACDC email outed one of the victims. No as yet formal statement from CFAR on the matter.

Duncan Sabien- the CFAR Chief Operating Officer (EDIT: he tells me he’s in the process of stepping down from CFAR), might be remembered for their Punch Buggy thing which I had forgotten credited Brent Dill with inspiration, or for Dragon Army, published a post on Facebook with a proposal for how Brent Dill should respond, and saying that he did not think based on what was public that he deserved to be villainized. It was originally friends only, but was authorised by Duncan for distribution to a public Discord channel on Doissetep containing me without enjoining the people in that channel against further distribution. (I will be entirely upfront here: Giving this to me without binding me against distributing such that it winds up public on Tumblr was not his intention, I was explicitly requested by them to not post it around after I first put it into a Facebook group, I just don’t think there’s actually a social rule obligating me to actually abide by such a request made retroactively after information has been placed into a public location, and have Duncan’s own agreement over Messenger that I am in fact not bound. You may judge me as you will.)

I invite people to make their own analysis of these emails/posts; I hear some are in progress by others. Rather than writing 2000 words on what I think, I’ll leave it to others, because I’m fairly busy today and I think distributing the information is the important part. I will say that people looking forward to resilience against the next predator should probably not count the current one handled just yet.