RavelryReviews 510

Excluding Conservatives, Christians, Trump supporters somehow makes Ravelry an inclusive site? The amount of hate speech used by Ravelry users that have aligned themselves with this ludicrous policy is beyond offensive. Left Supremacists have infiltrated this site and have made it exclusive, not inclusive. Toxic, groupthink, radicals are attempting to align businesses and many do not know or understand the politics that reign over knitting and crochet. $#*! hats are allowed, MAGA hats are not. Who needs that kind of discrimination and disparaging comments and rants from the left?

Ravelry instituted a policy of no trump support/supporters allowed, justifying it with the reason all trump supporters are racists. All patterns and discussion of patriotism are banned, however one can buy patterns that celebrate anti-semitism, and that are vulgar/inappropriate (vagina, penis patterns, $#*! trump hats, etc)
Since they instituted this, they have enabled the SJWs in the community and vicious attacks of conservatives and liberals who sided with conservatives (over this discrimination) all over social media

I have used this site to locate some patterns.
HOWEVER, Ravelry has labeled members/supporters of President Trump as White Supremacists and have placed most, if not all on some sort of ban. They have even banned members who showed no support of the POTUS. They banned users from publishing patterns that were pro life, and members who used word God. They have banned all support for Trump on their site, while allowing foul works of "art" of "F**k Trump".

In my opinion those affiliated with the site, have become supremacists themselves.

They have completely gone off the deep end and seem to have taken up the business of daycare for the ignorant and hateful. So much for tolerance and inclusion. Bigots and hypocrites.

I was a long time Ravelry user until just a few weeks ago. While it wasn't perfect, it worked and was great for finding new patterns and tracking my finished projects.

Then Ravelry decided to come out and ban support of Trump, equating it to hate speech and even support for white supremacy at one point in time. Even though my political views are best described as "complicated," I have a big problem with this decision. It is unfairly biased toward a group of people that I know to be so diverse that lumping them all under one umbrella of "white suprmacists" or promoters of hate speech is ludicrous. They continue to allow anti-Semitic patterns (true hate speech) and ban Christian patterns as hate speech. Yes, Ravelry is a private company who can make these rules if they want. However, they just alienated half of their customer base making sweeping generalizations that are not true for most (if not all). The wiser course would have been to ban all political speech and promote true inclusivity, in which people of ALL walks of life can celebrate each other's work and build a vibrant community based on civility and respect, and if someone violated that, to deal with them individually instead of lumping a large group of people into a stereotype.

True tolerance is shown by how you treat those who disagree with you.

I have been a member of Ravelry for over 10 years, and have always loved their pattern library and their yarn resources. However, no resource, no matter how good, is worth dealing with regular attacks on people against their faith, their belief systems, or their voting history. I came there to knit. I left, because I'm a human being first. Is it so hard to treat each other with love and respect? To listen to another point of view apart from our own? I hope they change their attitudes soon, but given the management is the worst of the bunch, it's doubtful.

Best knitting/ crochet site on the web. More so because they have banned the pro Trump racists who can't seem to understand that by supporting a man who preaches white supremacy, they are in fact sanctioning his racist policies. If you are not a racist or white suprematist, why on Earth support one. It's lovely to now be able to chat about knitting, search the thousands of patterns etc without racist politics being involved. All the people on here are nice now. The

Things I like about them: vast database of patterns and yarn info

Things I don't like about them: the technology they use is ancient and the site hasn't been updated in many years.

Also, they are allowing politics to seep into all of the craft threads and that's not good. If you want craft info, as I did, you still are subjected to their politics.

If you want patterns try another site like allfreeknitting or freepatterns. If you want forums check out the knitting groups on Facebook. Ravelry will just drive you nuts.

I have been a member of this website since it was in beta testing in 2008. This has always been a wonderful resource for knitting patterns and a great place to curate your yarn and pattern collection, discover pattern designers and also socialize with other knitters through their group function. Although I haven't been active in groups on the site as much in the past few years, the ones I was a part of were enjoyable. The site administrators do care about their members and do their best to make everyone feel welcome and safe. Unfortunately, with a site with 8.5 million members it can get ugly at times and I can't imagine it is an easy job. If you love to knit/crochet and want a respectful, inclusive and supportive community, this is a great site to join. Or, if you are like me and just like to use it to find cool new patterns and avoid the drama, it's good for that too!