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Re:The cost of lies: A Mineserver story by wewewedxfgdf on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:44AM (#49989583)
Just to add to the picture, you can read here one of Cringely's final columns:

https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/21/im-writing-again/

Count up the number of comments from Jeremy Reimer - the author of this HN linked article - he cares - a lot about this.

The Kickstarter was more than 10 years ago - 2015. It raised $35,452. 10 years and the trolls maintain their nuclear level outrage.

Go read the announcement post:

https://www.cringely.com/2015/09/29/the-cringely-boys-kickst...

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Re:The cost of lies: A Mineserver story by akoboldfrying on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:57AM (#49990510)
The situation seems symmetrical to me. However "easy" it would have been for people to stop hounding him for updates, it would have been the same level of "ease" for Cringely to have simply fessed up that the project was toast.
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Re:The cost of lies: A Mineserver story by mrguyorama on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:29PM (#49998379)
>10 years and the trolls maintain their nuclear level outrage.

They are victims. He scammed them.

How come HN always gets so indignant when people who do scummy business face reasonable repercussions for that scummy business?

It's called "A reputation"

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