My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

The handling of this situation has completely nuked any trust I ever had in this service.

http://www.slideshare.net/mjmjg/differences-in-venture-capit...

I mean, just read this small snippet. It honestly seems like it was written by an average high school freshman...

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1.2 Research Objectives

Although there are certainly differences in the venture capital financing of startups within one given country, this study no more than focuses on the differences across countries: US, UK, Germany, and France. The Boston way of venture capital financing of startups indisputably differs somehow from the California way. Likewise, the London way of venture capital financing of startups indubitably deviates from the Manchester way. Supposedly, the Paris way of venture capital financing of startups is distinctive from the Lyon way. Moreover, the Munich way of financing of startups alternates from the Berlin way. The research study willfully neglects a priori the minor differences within each country and views each country as a homogeneous cluster. Therefore, the implicit assumptions of this empirical research study are:

* There is a US way of venture capital financing of startups

* There is a UK way of venture capital financing of startups

* There is a German way of venture capital financing of startups

* There is a French way of venture capital financing of startups

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Then, if you want a real laugh, go to page 24 of that "thesis" to behold Figure 1 (Link between e-Commerce and e-Business). There are literally 2 circles shown, one inside of the other.

I really think YC has been played here.

Your company has appeared on HN before, and as a YC-backed company you should probably have some idea of the type of people who are part of this community. It amazes me that you believe you can respond to this story by attempting to doxx trusted long-term users (or rather, just plain lying about their identities) and claim that the people here are attacking your company.

Even more so that you believe you can claim that a "majority of the comments [in this HN thread] come from competitors and banned users" (@livecodingtv). Most of the people in this thread have never used your products (myself included) - and in response to this story, many who may have never will.

You are the one attacking your company. Stop lying on Twitter. Stop trying to avoid criticism by claiming that your (outraged) potential customers are competitors or spammers. Stop trying to remove pseudonymity from HN commenters (especially the ones trying to be at least slightly sympathetic to your company).

Consider the fact that you may be facing legal action for some of your behavior. The way you respond to these accusations will undoubtedly be reflected in any proceedings, and at at the moment I don't think you're helping your case. (IANAL)

I'm not going to make jabs at your psychological state like a few of the comments here have, but it would be in your interest to visit a mental healthcare professional (if only to check you're capable of handling the pressure caused by this story).

We should do this again sometime.

EDIT: After reading through a bunch of the CEO's comments, I'm now seriously concerned there may be a mental illness at play. I probably shouldn't have made light of the situation; calling out several users such as minimaxir as Alex from LiveCoding honestly seems delusional.