Posted on 07/06/2019 11:51:15 AM PDT by jeb184
More Ravelry members are voicing their objections to Ravelry banning President Trump supporters by posting videos on YouTube. Well-spoken, moderate, and reasonable, these women provide some unexpected points of view concerning their reasons for departing. That said, it seems that a significant number of Ravelry members have launched an ad hoc WalkAway movement. But this time, it’s WalkAway from Ravelry.
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Old news.
I had not heard it and it is a pretty slow news day.
Why anyone with a business would get involved in “politics” is beyond me..... bad for business.
They could have handled it by just having a statement “This is a knitting site, not a politics forum. Postings containing politics will be deleted”, and uniformly enforced it.
But nooooo....
Start your own group, Ladies!
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In an unusual but interesting line of reasoning, her dissatisfaction with Ravelry’s anti-Trump policy is practical, not political. What she resents is that the site is now spending time and money on policing their new ban. Yet at the same time, they’re not making funds available to deal with the serious issue of pattern piracy on the site.
In other words, Ravelry’s suppression of Trump supporters clearly takes greater precedence over doing something about the piracy of its own members’ patterns and projects. Squelching free speech is now far more important than protecting the patterns of Ravelry members from blatant piracty.
So now Crochet O’clock is done. She’s gradually removing all her content and taking it elsewhere. She explains why right here.
Hate is perfectly OK if you’re an SJW
A final irony: As of today, F**k Trump knitting patterns are still available to Ravelry’s logged-in members. Here’s a snapshot of a few of them.
WalkAway from Ravelry
A selection of Ravelry F*** Trump projects still available for members of the site. Fair and balanced policies for knitters.
The link to these patterns is here. Or at least it was the last time I looked. But they are available only to logged-in members. Looks like work by SJW supremacists is A-OK with Ravelry.
But it’s not OK for quite a few Ravelry members who are sick and tired of fake news and hyper-partisan politics.
On Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere, comments clearly indicate that a goodly number of Ravelry members are leaving the site and taking their patterns with them as a result of the site’s new, virtue-signaling policy.
Any sensible site catering to knitting hobbyists and professionals would have been better off by gently discouraging all blatantly political commentary. And perhaps even highly politicized knitting patterns as well. Yet Ravelry has chosen sides, caving to the PC Police and the assorted SJWs dedicated to insulting and alienating roughly half of all American citizens. But as other virtue-signaling corporations are discovering, there’s a price to pay for driving away roughly fifty percent of your real and potential customers.
ESPN and Ravelry: Two peas in a failed business pod
Ask ESPN what all that sports network’s race-baiting over the past few years did to their viewership numbers. Right. This nonsense put them in a subscriber-losing tailspin from which the once premier sports network has yet to recover. Why? Because sports fans who ponied up the ever-increasing price of an ESPN subscription package were paying to see sports, not another clone of CNN’s stable of fake news clowns.
Ravelry may be about to discover the same business truth. Avid, longtime members of this site want to knit and promote their latest patterns. They’re into knitting, not political hate. In other words, they’re generally not on Ravelry to climb on their political soapboxes. Hence, the spontaneous WalkAway from Ravelry movement is now in process.
So how is a policy that defames and drives away so many of your current and potential customers good for any business? Inquiring minds would like to know.
—Headline image: Knitting Grandma. Image via Pixabay.com is in the public domain, CC 0.0 license.
When have you posted any new news of value, or do you use your venom to downgrade Freepers.
This is actually new news on a previous post.
They kicked designers off. Not like commenters to posts, but people who designed patterns that other people could purchase/download to make on their own.
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I don't understand why any business would make any political statements or engage in politically controversial behavior.
Just last week I was driving through Virginia and decided to take a side-trip off the interstate to drive past the Red Hen Restaurant that refused to serve Sarah Sanders. Even though it was lunch time - no way was I going to stop at any restaurant in that town and certainly not the Red Hen.
I'm so glad I didn't stop. Yesterday the owner of the Red Hen said she supported the waitress who spit on Eric Trump. It's interesting, she said that no one in her industry supported violence or assault on any customers but then said she supported the waitress. Is she a moron? Spitting is called criminal assault and is also considered battery.
It's a knitting site, and while I don't knit, and have never visited the site, Knitters use the site to share, sell and show off their work like every other crafting site. The problem is they are just fine with "Yes We Can" pillows, "I'm with Her" sweaters, and of course "Pussy Hats". Any leftist project is fine. It is only Trump themed projects that are banned. Sell/show off your MAGA blanket elsewhere.
Their goal is not to ban politics, it is to ban views they disagree with.
Not necessarily.
They may think that such a moral stand is necessary to stay in business, to avoid a boycott or bad press from social justice jihadis.
They may have bad marketing advice from Millennials saying it is NECESSARY to appeal to young spenders.
They may have such a liberal consumer base that they think this is a plus with their market, and that making such a stand will increase sales in said niche more than the minority of conservatives they have on the site.
They may think that such a moral stand is necessary to stay in business, to avoid a boycott or bad press from social justice jihadis.
They may have bad marketing advice from Millennials saying it is NECESSARY to appeal to young spenders.
They may have such a liberal consumer base that they think this is a plus with their market, and that making such a stand will increase sales in said niche more than the minority of conservatives they have on the site.
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Ask knot...wait...
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