I am a former member of the now defunct project Red Spectre (which is where I met Saul).
Saul and I have been online friends for most of the last ~9months or so. He's a nice enough kid, but ofc has his flaws. Personally I find him to be a well read person and I am convinced that the majority of his time is spent studying theory or editing Revolupedia articles.
Saul is young. Only 18, and last I knew was still going to school. He also (in the last few months) was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, which is why I am making this post. Saul often comes to me in my discord dms and is terrified that you all are plotting against him. I do not think any of you are, and I tell him that, but he is rather paranoid about it. I've told him repeatedly that he should ignore it, y'all are just making stupid memes and jokes, but he will not listen. When I first met Saul he didn't seem to have any issues with delusions but then one day he just...did. He's been in and out of the psychward, trying new medications, but he's really really been struggling.
As I understand, he did considerable damage to the prolewiki and leftypedia projects, I am sorry on his behalf. Even if he wouldn't agree with me, I don't think it was good what he did, and I know that you all are just as passionate to see change in the world as he is. I know for a fact he would be devastated if someone wrecked his revolupedia project in the same manner that he wrecked prolewiki.
I'm far from some big shot communist or anything, I'm just a 25 year old that's read a bit of this or that, and tabled a couple times for various parties. Still, I come here asking if people could just avoid talking about him? I can't exactly expect the entirety of this community to never mention him, but I also can't control Sauls internet usage. I just feel bad for him and I don't know what else to do.
I think this is incredibly fair and I am sure he has already seen this post and read it, but nonetheless I will forward it to him.
The only thing I'll say is that point 5...I really don't think anyone else on revolupedia even uses this site? I have an account on there but I have made maybe 2-3 pages on there at most. I'm just not all that good of a writer haha. Any accounts you think are his are 99% probably his. We actually used to make jokes about this in RS because Saul just has so many fucking alt accounts for every single possible website/service. "All of us are Sauls alts!" and other jokes like that.
I hope it didn't sound like I was trying to say that everyone should just get over everything that happened. Rather, I just didn't know what else to do for him. It's not like people haven't told him before to stop coming here. I probably tell him this atleast once a week.
Anyways, I'm sorry for any and all stress you've had to endure because of his behavior and hope that you can enjoy the rest of your day.
Probably yeah. They show their true face sooner or later. Not trying to sound mean on this (again just trying to be clear on messaging), but it's not relevant who they belong to, what matters is that they look like wisconcom's and if we get even just once the idea that he has tried to get an alt through on lemmygrad (or prolewiki, of course), the deal is off the table and he's back to square one like he is now. I assume he doesn't want that, so it's in his interest to actively discourage anyone he even hears about requesting an account here or posting here if he even gets a whiff of this happening.
He also has to be proactive and delete the alts ASAP. I say this here because as you pointed out, we both know he reads lemmygrad. The terms of the deal are not up for debate, either he accepts it as is or doesn't; the editing of the lemmygrad page on revolupedia and the deletion of every alt account will mark the start of it (edit- and of course then he has to follow every point, including deleting his 'on prolewiki' substack piece ASAP). Hopefully in perpetuity.
Since we can tell you're not an alt you can keep using this account on lemmygrad, but that goes only for this one.
Eyy, I appreciate the green light.
I sent him a message on discord so we will see!
Suggest he gets a plugin to block lemmygrad and prolewiki.
👍 Will do!