I’ve spent a limited amount of time on OF, none of which was during its infancy (ie, before the proliferation of chatters), so perhaps I’m missing some key context, but I don’t see how the content creators could be absolved of all blame for actions they themselves have taken (hiring chatters, claiming old content is new, not fulfilling orders), while conversely, OF could be fully to blame for actions taken by third parties (the creators and chatters) solely because (a) they didn’t anticipate at launch that not every interaction on the platform would come from the creators themselves (a lack of foresight and imagination certainly, but not a reason for them to bear all blame) and (b) once the existence/usage of chatters became clear to them, they didn’t act to shut them down completely (virtually impossible to do, I’d suspect) or didn’t change their ToS soon enough (an accurate complaint from what I’ve read, but again, not something that would fully absolve the creators IMO).
