Hello all. I am SAeN from the r/velo subreddit. Just to clear a few things up about the person moaning about me:
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I have been giving out free advice on that subreddit for like 8 years now. It has never resulted in financial gain for myself as I have regularly refused to coach people that asked me through reddit (initially an anxiety/impostor syndrome thing, now more about wanting to not have my first interaction be with someone anonymous.)
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I became a mod on that subreddit well after I started coaching for Kolie/EC. My sole impact there is that I remove posts asking what bike people should buy. I have never removed content from another coach because frankly why would I bother. That subreddit has as many people giving good information as it does giving bad. I don’t care either way. There are a bunch of coaches on there that also pitch themselves, they’re welcome to and I have on several occasions pointed people towards coaches that are not me or EC
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Perhaps most important of all to this discussion, I happen to know who OP is and why they got banned from the subreddit and eventually this year the discord after they popped up:
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They were banned from the subreddit for repeatedly posting covid misinformation, even when it wasn’t even remotely related to the subject of discussion.
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They were banned from the discord because they were being exceptionally creepy towards a female user of the discord. They also called all the users of the discord trash and there was a lot of people requesting that the mods take action due to how they were acting.
For the avoidance of doubt, they were not banned from either community because they don’t agree with everything said by Kolie or myself. They were banned on both occasions for being a complete weirdo.