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My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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This is insanity. This startup should be immediately dropped from YC.

Seems all Ycombinator haters are always lurking for their next moment to trash Ycombinator whenever they get an opportunity.

No one is trashing YC here, plenty of people criticising you and your behaviour though. Maybe you should reflect on that.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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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.

If I may allow myself a guess, possibly the line of thought at livecoding.tv, given the other examples of banned users on your site, and given the lie about the cron job, is that these are merely moronic, worthless customers you're alienating that you wouldn't want on your site anyway. Perhaps you think (thought?) that this is another such instance. This is not the case. You've created a huge leak in your potential e…

No site in the world likes banning any user. We only put a temporarily ban on certain users or in severe cases a permanent ban. As explained we are a community and you can expect that there a lot of people who hide their real identity and misbehave in away they wouldn't do in real life.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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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.

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?

You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hiding your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment for others to know?

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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YC is an investor in the company. We've been trying all day to reach the CEO and we've been unsuccessful so far. Obviously, this is very bad and we hope the company will fix it quickly.

I'm concerned that many comments on this suggest that the problem is that the CEO needs better PR. It's scarier to me that this sort of behavior could hide behind PR. For tech in general I think ethics needs to be considered more than PR, as that's the heart of the matter. Clearly, those who've signed up for Livecoding are somewhat scared that this team has their data. I understand YC can't run these companies, but I…

Joe - I hope you doing fine in Indiana. Can you at least be honest and add that you spammed on Livecoding.tv many times marketing your website and service for which our support team warned you and banned your numerous accounts?

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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YC is an investor in the company. We've been trying all day to reach the CEO and we've been unsuccessful so far. Obviously, this is very bad and we hope the company will fix it quickly.

Thanks, I hope you guys can get somewhere. I'm preparing a complaint to file with the ICO and looking into other options since nothing else seems to have worked and I have no idea what else to do, but really I just want to have my account deleted and move on. I can't believe a simple support ticket spun out into this debacle.

You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hide your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment so people understand how to take your comments in this thread?

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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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?

You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hiding your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment for others to know?

You just called the woman that you were harassing a coward.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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So, 12 hours on and the account still hasn't been deleted... I mean, at this point you have to assume none of the co-founders has the ability to delete it (because common sense would suggest they would have by now, if they could have, to mitigate the on-going public-relations disaster) probably because they outsourced all of their development and really have no clue about how their website actually works. Under norma…

Our team is not 24/7 on Hackernews. As you read, currently on different time zone, thus the delay to response

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Thanks, I hope you guys can get somewhere. I'm preparing a complaint to file with the ICO and looking into other options since nothing else seems to have worked and I have no idea what else to do, but really I just want to have my account deleted and move on. I can't believe a simple support ticket spun out into this debacle.

You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hide your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment so people understand how to take your comments in this thread?

What are you talking about? My LinkedIn profile and contact details are on the website this thread is linking to, not to mention you plastered my full name all over my Livecoding profile last night, so it's not exactly a secret. Or did you think you were replying to some other comment?

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Thanks, I hope you guys can get somewhere. I'm preparing a complaint to file with the ICO and looking into other options since nothing else seems to have worked and I have no idea what else to do, but really I just want to have my account deleted and move on. I can't believe a simple support ticket spun out into this debacle.

You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hide your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment so people understand how to take your comments in this thread?

"You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hide your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment so people understand how to take your comments in this thread?"

Michael, you really need to stop harassing the OP. You're destroying your company.

Edit: I guess by this point it's clear you don't care about your company. But you've tormented the OP constantly -- have some human decency.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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If you are Paul G./YC, what do you do about this? Nothing unless it gets bad press. Why do you think they care about "egregious" behavior? Quote From: What We Look For In Founders - Paul Graham - October 2010 [...] 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 qu…

I don't think that's fair. I strongly doubt PG considers spamming, or (falsely) naming & shaming customers, as "naughtiness". That's something very different.

"The culture of any organisation is shaped by the worst behaviour the leader is prepared to tolerate".

By stating that rules breaking is desirable, but not stating clearly where the lines are, companies are not given clear enough guidance to avoid scumbag behaviour.

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