Here is that report: What actually happened with The Odd Gentlemen □ I am not yet asserting anything, just stating what the source said I’ll hold my personal comments until after the whole thing. This is a summary of the claims from the source to preserve their anonymity and ensure clarity. Because these allegations were new, and from a credible source, I thought they warranted their own article and research.įor the rest of the story about Hiveswap, see The Hiveswap Fiasco, to which this is a kind of sequel.īy the request of the source (because Andrew is known to be aggressively litigious), I have edited our conversation into a synthetic document. However, there was one big report I got that was too significant to just edit into the article. A number of people took me up on that, which I am thankful for. When I wrote the Hiveswap article, I left a note asking for people to contact me if there were any facts I got wrong or major events I missed. Claims and established points of fact are different, and I am careful to always treat them as such. I have always presented my source's claims as-is, and encouraged readers to take everything here with healthy scepticism. The announcement does its best to make it sound like this post was me somehow being hoodwinked into regurgitating slander against WP, which is simply false. In the same Kickstarter update, though, they explicitly confirm a significant amount of the news I broke, including multiple major points in this very article! I have also noted those cases. It is entirely possible some of this information was provided in bad faith, but some of still holds up. As with everything else, I will note which claims are dubious. Some of the later ones seem incorrect semi-informed exaggerations to make a point. Many of the claims made here early in the timeline turned out to be correct, and even verified by What Pumpkin later on. In addition to the obvious - that a whistleblower doesn’t like the practices they’re whistleblowing - this would mean they were not privy to the events of 2014 or later, making anything they said about that only semi-informed speculation. There is a detailed analysis of this update in The Hiveswap Fiasco, but to summarize:Īccording to What Pumpkin, this is a disgruntled ex-employee who left the team in early 2014, meaning anything they said later than that is speculation. As this individual was not present during the end of the development contract with GC, nor the WP NYC development period, all of the information they have shared is based on speculation and conjecture. WP has been aware of a pattern of false claims this former employee has made since the end of their employment at the beginning of 2014. As of Kickstarter Update #36, What Pumpkin made the following statement about the accuser from this article: (They didn’t tell you it was the source in this article, I’m telling you that)Īs an addendum, WP has identified the primary source of a disclosure to a well-circulated document of the Hiveswap development process.
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