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My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

#121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like you guys just corrected the spelling of your website name on my profile (previously "LIIVECODING.TV"), which is still accusing me of spamming. Is this the kind of improvement you had in mind?

"like watching a train wreck in slow motion" is an expression I've never felt the need to use. Until now. This is unacceptable behavior from any business.

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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

#122
At the beginning of her post, with her explaining why she got into streaming, she almost convinced me to start an account myself; needless to say, by the end of the post and judging from the comments here, there is no way in hell I'd sign up.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

#126

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

Hi drakonka, I have only just found out about this, and was until now not aware of what happened. I don't know why my cofounder Michael marked you as spam, and I will ask him to contact you. I can only apologise for the handling of your account deletion, it really is not acceptable that it took so long, so we will make it a priority to improve this.

With this being on HN top (and with the word spreading), this story has potential to kill livecoding.tv.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

#127
Obviously what Livecodings Michael is pulling is some high level disgusting BS. Still some metacognition is in order. I highly recommend "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus"

> so in reply to “how often?” the answer was basically “not often”. At some point it got pretty frustrating to keep receiving these emails, but whatever.

>I let them know that their last “soon” was over a week ago with no clarification of when their “soon” is

gee, I wonder if the two are connected somehow.

TLDR: Girl lies, because she thinks its more polite to lie instead of being upfront ("I dont know If I will even stream at all, stop asking me" versus "I am totally into you and we will definitely date, just not today because .. umm.. my cat is sick!"), girl is outraged at being lied to in exchange (polite "we will delete your account soon" versus "no, we dont delete accounts ever, get lost").

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

#128
I don't really get the appeal of Livecoding.tv. I've streamed a few times on the service and it's not as good as any other live streaming service. Their email marketing is borderline spammy, their tactics are questionable, and they don't offer a particularly solid feature set, or anything specifically helpful for live streaming coding that you couldn't get with YouTube or Twitch (categories, I suppose?). The argument might be made they have audience specifically looking to watch people write code, but I've never seen more than ~40 people at a time on one stream. You'll probably see more traffic on Twitch in the Programming category.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

#129

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

Hi drakonka, I have only just found out about this, and was until now not aware of what happened. I don't know why my cofounder Michael marked you as spam, and I will ask him to contact you. I can only apologise for the handling of your account deletion, it really is not acceptable that it took so long, so we will make it a priority to improve this.

2 hours and only a spellfix (which is even more insulting than nothing). Still no clue about priorities it seems. I guess after Twitch Creative all press is good press... Let's hope for some press.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

#130
post #32

So the cron job turned out to be an invented lie told to a user they essentially assumed would be too stupid to think about it. Which is it then, that they e.g. have a tired support team using a canned response that includes a lie? Or is it the founders themselves thinking their audience are fools? Sure, separate business policy from code, but it seems unwise to assume your users are technically ignorant when your si…

could be a monthly cron job. Principle of charity right?

Of course, assuming that it is a monthly cron job and the account actually is scheduled for deletion then, the question would be: Why in gods name would you not just say that?! "Your account is scheduled for deletion at so and so time", and if at that point you're complaining that it's not fast enough, no one would really have much sympathy for that.

It's still possible this isn't an example of a vindictive and petty individual lying through their teeth. It may still be an example of someone who with poor PR skills, and is not coping with the situation those poor PR skills created.

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