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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by Exuma »

deadcoding wrote: post #160

Huh, I saw this livecoding site advertised here by the founders, seemed like a great idea and I hoped it would kick off. Sad to see the administration is unprofessional. I wonder how people can fail so hard at public relations. If they didn't want to delete her account all it would have taken is a "Sorry, accounts can't be deleted from livecoding.tv". Instead they had to turn this into something that destroys the rep…

It's really amazing how poor it is. There really isn't any possible reason that would make it reasonable.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by deadcoding »

467568985476 wrote: post #46
minimaxir wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING+ BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING ...did they mispell their own startup in their vandalism? Also, per her LinkedIn, the OP works for DICE the game-development studio (subsidiary of EA, made Battlefield…

Wow, that is insane. These guys are a YC backed company?!

If it is they need to pull funding immediately.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by detaro »

yokohummer7 wrote: post #44
minimaxir wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING+ BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING ...did they mispell their own startup in their vandalism? Also, per her LinkedIn, the OP works for DICE the game-development studio (subsidiary of EA, made Battlefield…

It is also interesting that only the second line has a plus sign at the end. I'll have to infer the meaning of that.

I have a mental image of an angry person mashing

CTRL+V, RETURN, RETURN,

CTRL+V, RETURN, RETURN, CTRL+V and then accidentally hitting + together with RETURN....

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by [deleted] »

orless wrote: post #126
jamiegreen wrote: post #59

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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.

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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by livecodingwtf »

jamiegreen wrote: post #59
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/

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.

It's been three hours; and their account is still just filled with libel that you put there.

So far everything you and your cofounders have done has made this problem worse and larger.

You are untrustworthy and incompetent.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by mintplant »

austenallred wrote: post #95
tylerlh wrote: post #92

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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?

It's up to the founders to reach out and try to figure out how to solve the problem. If they don't do that YC isn't going to perform an audit or hold a bunch of seminars or something. TBH most of this is basic competence. YC can't ensure that all of the companies are competent in all aspects.

They don't need to perform an audit to find this issue when it's plastered across the front page of their news aggregator.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by tedunangst »

DanBC wrote: post #158
tptacek wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but I had the same thought; along the lines of "does YC really have to do a dinner where someone comes in and tell the batch's founders not to try to make examples of customers/users that are annoying them, because they will look ridiculous at best and, as in cases like this, actively malignant at worst"? Is that really a lesson YC needs to teach?

It doesn't need to be a dinner, but a nice blog post would possibly help. It's not as if this is the first boneheaded response from a YC funded company, and it's YC's name that gets linked to this sub-optimal behaviour. That "break the rules" post got around. Maybe there needs to be a "but don't be a massive jerk to ex customers" follow up post.

I thought there was already a "no asshole" rule? But maybe it's one of the rules you're supposed to break.
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