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He still left up his attack piece, blatantly lying about a number of events that occurred. I don't think it's worthwhile to defend myself years later, but does this sounds like the tone of a professional? This is one of many poor messages he's been sending about former staff, along with several Github comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/bzbomd/comment/e...

I'm not the first person they have ostracized. I have seen other anonymous post-mortems describing experiences similar to mine from earlier time periods. I did so much work for them, it still feels unreal that someone could be that vindictive.

Perhaps this belongs on a Glassdoor equivalent for FOSS projects, but since one doesn't exist and this thread appeared in my feed, I think it's important I'm able to voice my perspective since he tried to assassinate my character.

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He comes off as fully professional and measured in that link. Describing that as character assassination makes you seem like someone nursing a grudge, not someone with a legitimate grievance. And at least he’s left his response up for people to judge for themselves, while you’ve deleted everything you put in that Reddit thread.

If lots of other people really agree with your impression of working with Clem, point us at these other, similar opinions you mention. So far this is just “the lurkers support me in email.”

Playing devil’s advocate here.

Here are the red flags: - Lack of context. Why is all of the evidence hidden/deleted/tucked away?

- Speak for “everyone”. Was it really consensus? Why not take direct ownership of a decision, instead of hiding behind a collective?

- Pulling in a snippet of private conversation as a evidence of being reasonable.

- Naming and shaming.

It may well be that the OP deserved the ban, but a single snippet of a measured response doesn’t address the questions that said action raises. Without more evidence, I say it suggests there’s more to this.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, etc. In light of these posts, which clearly do not match what GP is claiming, I'm going to conclude that either side could be right, I just don't have enough information.

It does sound professional, to be honest. His tone is measured, he explains his position, gives reasons for his choices, and offers a plausible timeline.

This particular piece of evidence is not conclusive, but neither is it in your favor.

> neither is it in your favor.

That doesn't matter though. The fact he is retaliating in public over a post that only references public information, using private information, is inherently bad faith acting. The context is what makes it unprofessional.

Your posts are deleted so there is no way to judge what you said and what response it called for. If a former member starts an AMA to badmouth a project, I'd expect the lead to respond and give the necessary information to defend the project and himself.

It's indeed pretty scummy to dox you in what was a pseudonymous post.

Also other posts in this thread seems like victim blaming. Just because someone is famous doesn't make him a good person.

You have the burden of proof exactly backwards.

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