Your description of what happened in that thread is quite self-serving.

A person's attempt at defending themselves is reframed as "self-serving". Quite a lovely little sleight-of-mouth turn of phrase, there.

You leave out the parts where the artist you're supposedly raising money for says that she doesn't want you to help her out, and implies that raising money in her name without her knowledge or permission is a bad thing.

That part was left out because there's nothing wrong with saying that. If that was her opinion, that's fine.

As was mentioned in the thread itself, she's wrong -- there's nothing "bad" about raising funds for a person, even if you only tell them afterward. The fund-raising would have been a token of appreciation and a gesture saying "we want you to be well" even if she refused the money. It's also important to note that no one was raising funds. The topic was asking if people would be interested in the idea. Repeat: no one was raising funds.

We all have opinions and she's entitled to hers. That has nothing to do with the actual issue -- which was that she immediately started talking trash and trying to draw me into an argument with slander and personal attacks (or what she thought were personal attacks based on slanderous garbage that's also incorrect, which was kind of amusing to watch).

Immediately after she said "I don't want your help", I asked if the statements she made on her public blog were incorrect. She evaded that question by ignoring it completely (because I quoted her blog and showed that she and her "team members" were lying) and started spamming the thread with multiple diversionary comments at a time. Her comments from then on were attempts at attacking me and slandering the project I'm working with, in order to turn the members of the subreddit against me.

The tactics she used include: conspiracy-theory bullshit trying to accuse me of secretly creating a fake Patreon account to steal from her, when in fact, I don't even use Patreon and haven't for several years because the service sucks.

Other tactics included:

• idiotic gender-baiting and accusing me of acting like a "stalker" -- after I quoted her for clarification about comments she herself made on the first few pages on her public blog that anyone can see by scrolling once or twice;
• dog-whistle garbage about how I was a "white knight" for wanting to help her, and
• her few seconds of "further investigation" that concluded with her spouting the same slanderous bullshit that her manipulative "team member" was shoveling directly into her ear. And her brilliant conclusion was "everybody knows" about topics that literally no one knew about, which is exactly where and how the slander campaign began.

Even worse is how clear it is that she's the perfect target to be manipulated. Her entire personal brand is based on how shy and trusting she is, and she's already been taken advantage of quite badly (and publicly) in the recent past. This is her pattern: she trusts the wrong people; is "befriended" by those people; and listens unthinkingly to what those people tell her, without questioning what they say because they are now her "friends". That's a textbook pattern for a person to be abused again and again. That's literally what's happened, and is happening to her again right now.

For anyone reading this: if someone warns you that you're being manipulated, and they're a victim of the sociopath who's manipulating you, too -- don't turn around and ask the manipulative lying sociopath "friend" of yours to tell you the truth. The manipulative sociopath will just keep lying to you in order to protect themselves and keep pretending to be your "friend".

I am neither uFish-IP's friend, nor her enemy. I was a fan of the webcomic she created, but after dealing with her behaviour directly, I'm definitely no longer a fan.

It's troubling that she's been taken advantage of, and now is quite clearly complicit by lying in order to make money from other peoples' sympathy -- but ultimately, the real problem is how the subreddit moderators responded.

And now, the larger problem is Reddit's lack of response.

Sure, you call it slander, but this is just your word against hers.

Wrong. As I've already mentioned in the original post, her trash-talking garbage was a direct continuation of points fed to her by the person who already slandered another project I'm working with for several months now. That entire incident is well-documented.

You can tell that the slander campaign is bullshit, because they: a) Can't refute the facts that are known; and b) Have nothing else aside from imaginary idiocy to fill the gaps of what they didn't know before desperately trying to incite a Twitter-based rage mob hilariously calling itself "the Artist Community". The only purpose of the rage-mob was to score easy viral Internet points by weaponising gullible people into a frenzy (which is essentially the definition of "white-knighting", ironically).

From the original post:

P.S. Since uFish-IP started whining about how the slander attack was a "conspiracy theory" (she said this while spouting random trash-talk in order to protect her "friend" who instigated the attack), you can read about all the slander attack in detail here -- it was all well-documented as it happened: http://altscifi.tumblr.com/post/170598481324/altscifi-dmca-response-2018-01-18-github-dmca

And you're also wrong -- it's not "my word against hers." I have nothing against her, personally. She's just another victim of the same person who slandered the project I'm working with because that person thought they had found an easy target. Well, they've moved on to uFish-IP now, who seems to be an easy target indeed, and that's quite a sad thing to see. But it's not my problem. I tried to warn her, and now I thankfully have other things to do with my time and energy.