Another commenter used the word bizarre. To me, it looks both bizarre and like smear campaigns by trolls that I've seen destroy people that were probably innocent. Now, I know Jake is an asshole and we now have one credible witness, Nick Farr, to extreme bullying. Yet, these are the exact kinds of tactics liars, trolls, SJW's, and spooks use on innocent people. The targets get "convicted by the media" without a trial or any real chance of defense. Many people wrongly assume large number of accounts saying same thing means it's open and shut.
They need to knock that stuff off to handle this right anyway. If one or more rapes happened, they need to contact the authorities to give full details on this. That FBI already wants to throw him in a cell with a number of witnesses claiming rape and others claiming bullying should make this easy (read: barely due process). In this case, Jake will be able to tell his side of the story, bring in his witnesses, and so on rather than one side's media campaign being sole decider of his fate. Plus, I find it hypocritical that the website describes its existence is to protect the next community from a "sexual predator." They'll tweet, accuse, make websites... all kinds of talk to "protect" others from a "sociopath"... but won't go to the police to attempt an arrest, conviction, and prison stay for same sociopath. Unheard of reaction in my parts among liberals or conservatives. Always cops involved when it's this public with people usually doing time.
I recommend people stay clear of both Jake Appelbaum and any of these idiots in the smear campaign. You can bet they'll do the same shit to you if you piss them off too much. Probably won't be rape claims but you'll be defending an online shitstorm. Nick Farr seems to be an exception who I hope recovers from any abuse he received and gets back to doing the good things people here describe. Definitely hang with him sometime.