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The 'Experience Project'? What's that?

I've never heard of it before. Why is everyone here talking about it? 🤔
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PowerofStories · 61-69, M Best Comment
In addition to what others have written here there were other darker events that led to the Experience Project being shut down. There was a "consensual murder" of a woman in a couple that met here.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/in-ohio-womans-murder-suspects-wife-says-theres-more-to-the-story/

And while I agree with some of the nostalgia of people here for the site, when I was onsite it was also the home of people who were clearly pedophiles and had easy access to underage users. There were also users who were openly and virulently racist.

The thing that made the Experience Project thrilling and vibrant -- full freedom and lack of regulation -- was also what allowed its darker underside to exist.
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@PowerofStories Just read the article. Gina's (the wife of the murderer) story doesn't sound terribly convincing. According to her, "her husband told her he tried to talk Martinez out of taking her own life, and that she had a plan of how she wanted Nisbit to kill her, and he eventually crumbled."
What a weak person her husband must have been. No one could ever convince me to deliberately take someone else's life, and I don't care what method they used in order to try to blackmail me into doing it.
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@HobNoblin Yes, you're right, completely ending the website wasn't an appropriate response to something like this. It could have happened, as you point out, on Twitter or Facebook (and they probably do, but we don't hear about it).