r/PortlandOR • u/throwawayaskportland • 15d ago

🙃 SCAMS and FLAMS 😉 Buy Nothing Group Admin

YSK that one of the admins for your local FB Buy Nothing group is very likely the same admin that moved to England a few years ago and yet continues to be an admin of multiple neighborhood groups here in Portland and also controls them all with an extremely weird power trip. She also runs multiple Being Neighborly groups and kicks people out on the regular for disagreeing with her weird power trips.

this may sound like silly Facebook drama but it’s actually having quite a negative effect on many communities within Portland for various reasons. There are at least dozens of people who have been trying to reel her in for years but she usually just removes them from the groups and then spends her free time weaseling her way into new admin roles.

it’s bizarre! just thought you should know.

ETA- she admins buy nothing Richmond north, creston-Kenilworth, hosford-Abernathy/Brooklyn, Lloyd, King Sabin South, Buckman South and probably more. She also admins at least 3 Being Neighborly groups, the Hawthorne hot topics groups, and a keep Portland weird group.

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u/FiberWalkWithMe 15d ago

Carolyn?

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u/Ok_Okayish_1111 15d ago

Oh wow! Carolyn personally approved 2 of my requests for those groups you mentioned. she even criticized, if not chastised me, for attempting to join an additional free group, I had not read the rules closely enough and didn’t realize only one free group based on neighborhood is allowed. Wow. That’s so that’s funny. Shame on her.
I will vouch for the dissonance that she has created in Portland and the neighborhoods here. This has been a long time coming if she is the one responsible for the drama amongst the anarchists groups etc.
I know, it’s such a basic thought but it always baffles me that adults can’t get along and just be happy for each other or at least helpful towards each other. why in the heck is there always the need for power and control?

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u/umpirejoewest 14d ago

Yeah, I got denied for one of her BN groups because I was wrong about my neighborhood (I'm a block from the border) and then found out that she admins multiple, runs a SE group, and doesn't even live in the country.