My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

Post by austenallred » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 8:56 PM UTC

nemexy wrote: post #55

drakonka wrote: post #31

It looks like Livecoding have now updated my profile for me, to claim I am "spamming them": https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

Can anyone please explain to me why a YC company is making such a terrible name for themselves at a website which is literally FULL with people, who they should aim at building positive image with. I am pretty sure that over 70% of their users have at least a username in this community. I hardly have ever seen a worse way to respond to a marketing crisis. edit: Now the answer of the co-founder(you can find it below)…

Post by deepnet » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 8:56 PM UTC

nv-vn wrote: post #73

roflchoppa wrote: post #49

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can you submit DMCA claim to them?

Doubt it. Their T&C probably protects them from that kind of thing, but I can't even find it on their site right now.

Post by austenallred » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 8:59 PM UTC

tylerlh wrote: post #92

austenallred wrote: post #85

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YC isn't going to run your company for you. This isn't a YC problem.

The entire premise of participating in YC is to learn from other founders about how to build a successful startup. You're saying that YC doesn't have any reason to try and help founders do better at running their companies?

Post by phpnode » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 9:03 PM UTC

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #80

phpnode wrote: post #72

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> If anyone hasn't figured it out already, YC is becoming the first 21st century university This is a ridiculous statement, it is nothing like a university.

YC - Research - https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research (clearly universities have nothing like this) Over 700 companies have gone on through YC, so they now have a few thousand alums and actively maintain an Alumni network -- really wish universities had something like this! The companies go through the program in cohorts for a set amount of time -- they call these "classes". Not sure if universities have anything…

Post by forgottenpass » Sun, Nov 01, 2015, 9:06 PM UTC

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #64

In the span of a just a few days we have YC-backed companies being publically outed for engaging in behavior which most of us consider pretty egregious and would certainly warrant any rights as YC founders to be revoked. The tone of commenters (here and w.r.t the Homejoy) can be described as mild shock. This particular example is perhaps even worse than the Homejoy issue, as it seems the founders have taken to person…

    [...] 
    Naughtiness
    Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they
    tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody 
    Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions 
    right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word
    naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules
    that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by
    imagination. [...]