what justified trying to track her down and harass her irl?
Nothing did. Infact most condone it, including IBan. Not to asskiss IBan here, but most people didn't think this was okay to do - including KF members and it's owner.
It's like someone in the thread said earlier, it doesn't take an entire community to investigate and harass someone. One bad actor can do this, and that's exactly what happened. You should be angry with the person/few people who thought this was okay, not with the website that massively and publicly condoned this. It's like when YouTube drama happens and fans of Youtuber A brigade to Youtuber B's channel to stuff on them because Youtuber A criticized them; even though Youtuber A never told their audience to go harass Youtuber B. In this situation would you blame the Youtuber, or would you blame the bad actors? The only reasonable answer is the latter. A website with thousands of users daily cannot and shouldn't be held responsible for the behavior of a few; if this was the case then most every social media platform should be shut down by the same logic.
and on that note - what about chris chan, which was the original reason the forum was set up for? chris has only degenerated as much as he has because of the harassment he got for being targeted by online trolls. if there was no online focus on him he'd probably go by as a bog-standard autistic manchild who never grew up, rather than whatever forgeted-up title people give him now.
Chris-chan is a victim of bullying, this isn't debatable. As stated earlier and if you're familiar with KF, most of it's members don't like IBan/Null for many reasons, the Chris obsession being one of them.
on the chris chan note - just so everyone knows, the actual suspects involved in manipulating/goading chris into the recent atrocities have as of late been sending emails to KF begging null to remove the evidence of what they did from the forum, where it is all, naturally, archived. Null has actually done a fair amount to help chris.
This. The people responsible for manipulating Chris are genuinely monsters - and because of KF everybody knows it. Especially the girl involved who's name I forget at the moment, I suspect she is on borrowed time and probably going to get in legal trouble soon enough, and she should. These folks are worse than most lolcows, especially worse than Chris. Chris up until recently was one of the lolcows who was actually not really harming anybody.
This isn't the case for most other people who are common subjects on KF though. Most of these people being documented are POS's, like potential or genuine child predators, people who abuse the courts to file false lawsuits, people who harass women online or IRL AKA extreme incels, deranged people who have been charged with crimes or soon will be, etc.
on the chris chan note - just so everyone knows, the actual suspects involved in manipulating/goading chris into the recent atrocities have as of late been sending emails to KF begging null to remove the evidence of what they did from the forum, where it is all, naturally, archived. Null has actually done a fair amount to help chris.
The lolcow's who ask for their threads to get removed/threaten legal action are the equivalent of criminals getting mad at someone ratting them out for informing police, they're upset that people are catching on to their stuffty behavior and want to censor it. I don't think I've seen a single case where a 'victim' was justified to ask for their thread to get taken down. stuffty people can't succeed if everyone knows that they're stuffty.
