If you are on the wrong side of
this ancient piece of photocopier humour, or at least aren't trying to get on the right side of it, go cry into your quiche.
Also, something about this whole saga smells. Short thread of no interest to most users on here, stereotypical easy target for the dang dirty Kiwis being a furry and non-binary, in a area reputed amongst the scum media for "toxicity," namely, retro computing, and the e-mail sent in to Null was almost designed to stir up outrage whatever Null did.
1. Null ignores it - they claim suicide and "Kiwi Farms cyberboolyed another LGBTQQIAP2+ person into killing themselves! CANCEL! CANCEL! REEEEEEEEE!"
2. Null takes the money - they claim "Null extorted a vulnerable LGBTQQIAP2+ person out of all their money! CANCEL! CANCEL! REEEEEEEEE!"
3. Null takes down the thread - they claim suicide anyhow and claim "Null took down the thread to hide the evidence of how Kiwi Farms cyberboolyed another LGBTQQIAP2+ person into killing themselves! CANCEL! CANCEL! REEEEEEEEE!"
4. Null replies "lol do a flip" - they claim suicide anyhow and claim "Null personally cyberboolyed another LGBTQQIAP2+ person into killing themselves! CANCEL! CANCEL! REEEEEEEEE!"
The whole thing seems almost perfect outrage fuel in any event.
I don't know who this person was. I don't know if he was a good programmer or not. I can respect his determination to keep a historic system going in current year; I have similar retro autist leanings but for the Atari ST. But this doesn't smell right.
I think a good solution might be to flip the script on them and offer to make a donation in his name to a suicide prevention charity. This puts them in the dilemma of "if we harass the charity into refusing the money we don't care about suicide, and if we do nothing we allow Null to launder his reputation."
