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Let’s walk through their points:

They’ve posted a version of events that I’ve seen many times before. It’s a neat story: paranoid developer spies on community, gets caught, throws a tantrum, destroys everything. It’s clean. It’s simple. It makes me the villain and you the righteous. But stories, to be useful, should be accurate.

So, let’s walk through theirs, point by point.

• “You illegally scraped people’s information”

“Illegally” is a strong word. Scraping a Discord channel is against Discord’s ToS, not a criminal code. But more importantly: why did I do it?

A password, the anti‑cheat key for the revival, was leaked in that channel. It was posted as an “inside joke.” That was a genuine security breach. As the sole maintainer of a project used by hundreds of people, I needed to know if other sensitive information had been exposed. So I archived the channel to audit it.

Did I share any of that information? No. Did I use it to harm anyone? No. I found private mockery of myself, which stung, but I didn’t weaponize it. I deleted the archive after the audit. The only “information” I took was knowledge that my project’s security had been compromised.

• “all because a random person correctly guessed a password”

This minimizes what happened. A password wasn’t “guessed”, it was posted in a channel I was excluded from. The leak was real. The risk was real. My response was proportionate: investigate, then fix. Calling it “unnecessary paranoia” ignores that the leak actually happened.

• “when called out for your actions”

Being “called out” would imply a fair discussion. What actually happened was: I was banned immediately, mocked publicly, compared to Hitler and Stalin by a moderator, and subjected to harassment that included death threats and racist slurs. That’s not a call‑out; it’s a mob.

• “threatened to launch a code that would delete the revival if evidence of your wrongdoings wasn’t deleted from the Discord”

Let’s talk about that “evidence.” Years earlier, as a child, I had posted personal information in the server. When the harassment escalated, doxxing attempts, death threats, attempts to hack my GitHub, I asked for that personal data to be removed. The moderators refused, citing “precedent” and Discord TOS. Privately, they admitted they kept screenshots of my messages “for anecdotes.”

So I set a deadline: delete my personal data, or I shut down my own project. That’s not a threat; it’s a boundary. I was asking for basic safety. They refused. I acted.

• “People didn’t allow you to escape the consequences”

What consequences? Being banned? Being harassed for months? Having my GitHub hit with password reset attempts? Receiving messages telling me I “need to pay in blood”?

You frame my attempt to have my data removed as “escaping consequences.” But the only “consequence” I was trying to escape was ongoing harassment and doxxing. If that’s what you think I deserved, then we have a fundamental disagreement about basic human decency.

• “spying on people in the Discord”

“Spying” implies covert surveillance for malicious purposes. I did a one‑time audit of a channel where my project’s security had been breached. I found nothing relevant to security except the mockery. I deleted the data. I never used it against anyone.

• “unnecessary paranoia”

The leak was real. The harassment was real. The death threats were real. The racist accounts were real. The doxxing attempts were real. The moderators’ refusal to delete my data was real. I have proof, IP traces, logs, cross‑referenced databases, that one of the members behind this forgot to turn on their VPN during their first account creation. The moderators refused to act and instead provided a safe space.

Calling my response “paranoid” dismisses legitimate fears. It’s gaslighting.

• “killed the project with a piece of code that would activate after a length of time unless other people on the Discord removed all traces of that person”

“All traces of that person” means my personal information. The data I posted as a child. The data they kept despite my requests. The data that, in the hands of people sending death threats, could have been used to find me. Yes, I set a deadline. Yes, I followed through when they ignored it. I withdrew my labor from a community that was actively harming me. That’s self‑preservation.

• “No one budged, and this person decided that killing off a project that people enjoyed was better than facing the consequences of their actions.”

Here’s what that comment omits:

• The death threats
• The racist harassment
• The doxxing attempts
• The moderator who compared me to Hitler
• The fact that I was 17, and this started when I was 12
• The fact that I asked only for my personal data to be deleted, not for anyone to be punished
• The fact that I handed over the project to someone else before leaving

“Facing the consequences,” in their telling, means accepting eternal harassment, never asking for privacy, and continuing to serve people who mock and threaten me.

I chose a different consequence: I chose to leave.

Ultimately:

The person who blocked me has a narrative where I’m the villain and the community is innocent. That narrative is convenient, but it’s not complete. It leaves out the death threats. It leaves out the racist accounts. It leaves out the moderators who called me Hitler. It leaves out that I was a child when I started, and a traumatized teenager when I left. I’m not going to convince anyone who’s already decided. But for anyone reading with an open mind: the full story is more complicated, and the person they’re dismissing spent five years building something he loved, only to be torn apart by the people who used it.

I’ve moved on to newer things (most notably Zanpo, for which lost media was shared directly with me by Geoff, the original creator of Sploder). You can keep your story. I have my code, my journal, and the memory of Geoff saying “cool!” when I showed him my work.

That’s enough.

Best regards,

Saptarshi