It’s been a while. It’s come to my attention that Woodstool has been posting as crudebar; and he has been making political wagers with several members of the forum. I wanted to give you all some information about dealing with this guy
I unfortunately made the mistake of giving him personal information when settling a bet with him. We spatted a ton over the course of 6 months or so about as much dumb shit as you could imagine. I regret it all, and admittedly put myself in a situation that I shouldn't have. I take responsibility for that.
“Woodstool” got banned from the RX because he contacted my (now) ex employer , and I reported this to BAS and Hache once my employer told me about
It. Basically he sent an email saying that I was a racist and submitted a thread of mine that he thought showed I was racist. The HR Director of my former employer called me in and discussed it with me. She said it was not racist at all, though it was obviously a little weird to be at a site like this. I asked her to give me the IP address of the person who submitted this info, and she gave it to me. I then took it to BAS and Hache, who said it matched Woodstool's IP address. He was shortly banned after.
At this point Woodstool already had my personal information. He then contacted me a day or so after being booted from the site and started threatening/blackmailing me and telling me to leave the site. That's why until Saturday, I had not posted since April 2019. He then continued to threaten me, and told me that if I didn't give him money that he would contact people in my personal life and ex-employer (they aren't my ex-employer because of him, just to be clear; I made a career change in 2020).
This behavior continued for basically all of 2019. He ended up extorting a few thousand dollars from me, forced me to write an apology for my "bad behavior" to the board in June 2019 (which was later deleted), and at one point forced me to fund a $1500 Ignition account for him since he had been banned from the site. I let him do this for way too long, because I was young and stupid and didn't want him to risk trying to hurt my personal life. But eventually I had enough of it, started ignoring him, and brought it both my family, my lawyer, and law enforcement. While no formal charges have been brought, we now know exactly who he is, and are more than willing to press forward if he tries to do something rash with anyone in my personal or former work life.
I think most of you wouldn't be scared, stupid people like me and let him take advantage of you for so long. That part is on me. I also think he probably would not go those lengths to most of you; he did have a vendetta towards me for our online spats. But I would NEVER give this guy any of your information. So that's why I felt compelled to come back here and share this.
If you want to settle wagers with him still, I think that's fine as long as you don't give him your info. That's your business and something you should work out. I think going forward, like stock said, avoid doing wagers here for the most part. While I think it's sort of shitty this guy has been allowed to post as Crudebar, I also get that they may have missed him because of his join date.
Happy to follow up with anyone about specifics of this if necessary. I figured it's good to have all the info then proceed with caution in any way you see feasible.
Thanks
StanfordSam
