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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by nissehulth »

denniskane wrote: post #389
mckee1 wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their wikipedia page[1] appears to have been edited by the founder too. (In which the company is described as a "multinational"). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livecoding.tv

To be fair, self-editing your own wikipedia entry with exaggerated terminology as an early stage startup is highly understandable in the grand scheme of things. Self-editing your own PhD credentials seems to be a step or two beyond that kind of behavior, haha :)

This part from their wikipedia entry isn't that understandable. Maybe some reference I'm too old to catch?

"Livecoding.tv was founded by Jamie Green & Underscore Pete in 2014"

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by 0x434D53 »

DrMJG_HN wrote: post #298
kuschku wrote: post #184

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I’ll quote another comment from minimaxir: > You're joking, but a quick Google search of [site:livecoding.tv banned] shows that's exactly what is happening. > https://www.livecoding.tv/2pointoh/ > https://www.livecoding.tv/hekton/ Which shows their usual procedure for deleting or banning is... vandalism .

Hi Alex from Watch People Code, i know you do not like us a lot because we did not agree to pay you money to move to Livecoding.tv. Please be honest and add a disclaimer that you are Alex from Watch People Code and you and your team members are trolling with different usernames in this thread and on Livecoding.tv. https://www.livecoding.tv/2pointoh/ also called Dan by first name is an individual in New York city who'…

Wow, trying to doxx people is just the lowest.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by denniskane »

nissehulth wrote: post #401
denniskane wrote: post #389

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, self-editing your own wikipedia entry with exaggerated terminology as an early stage startup is highly understandable in the grand scheme of things. Self-editing your own PhD credentials seems to be a step or two beyond that kind of behavior, haha :)

This part from their wikipedia entry isn't that understandable. Maybe some reference I'm too old to catch? "Livecoding.tv was founded by Jamie Green & Underscore Pete in 2014"

I dunno, a google search for "underscore pete" yielded this page as the top hit: http://underscorepete.xyz/post/article/dick-stream

The page is something about "The dick based streaming platform you never knew you needed", with the singular statement: "Dicks, dicks everywhere".

Seems pretty appropriate to this whole mess if you ask me!

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by SamReidHughes »

denniskane wrote: post #375

It seems to me that this guy ("Dr" Michael Garbade) is just a complete fraud. His supposed doctoral thesis can be found here: 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... ========================================== 1.2 Research Objectives Although there are certainly differences in the v…

A German PhD can't write good English and you use that to proclaim him a "fraud"? Do you have any real evidence? No?

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by kuschku »

0x434D53 wrote: post #402
DrMJG_HN wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Alex from Watch People Code, i know you do not like us a lot because we did not agree to pay you money to move to Livecoding.tv. Please be honest and add a disclaimer that you are Alex from Watch People Code and you and your team members are trolling with different usernames in this thread and on Livecoding.tv. https://www.livecoding.tv/2pointoh/ also called Dan by first name is an individual in New York city who'…

Wow, trying to doxx people is just the lowest.

And failing at it, despite my contact information being public everywhere!

I’ve volunteered in a child daycare for 2 weeks a few years ago, and even those children – age 3 to 6 – behaved more mature.

What does make me sad, though, is that his co-founder was caught in this fallout, and his reputation will be stained by this.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by ontoillogical »

nissehulth wrote: post #401
denniskane wrote: post #389

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, self-editing your own wikipedia entry with exaggerated terminology as an early stage startup is highly understandable in the grand scheme of things. Self-editing your own PhD credentials seems to be a step or two beyond that kind of behavior, haha :)

This part from their wikipedia entry isn't that understandable. Maybe some reference I'm too old to catch? "Livecoding.tv was founded by Jamie Green & Underscore Pete in 2014"

For what it's worth this seems to be some unrelated vandalism from September 1st

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Livecoding.tv&typ...

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by denniskane »

SamReidHughes wrote: post #405
denniskane wrote: post #375

It seems to me that this guy ("Dr" Michael Garbade) is just a complete fraud. His supposed doctoral thesis can be found here: 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... ========================================== 1.2 Research Objectives Although there are certainly differences in the v…

A German PhD can't write good English and you use that to proclaim him a "fraud"? Do you have any real evidence? No?

I might not be completely justified, and I don't feel all that great about making such a claim. But at this point, I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude. He dug his own grave by accepting funding, and then doing everything possible to throw it down the drain.

Why, are you actually interested in defending him in this thread?

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by cjslep »

austenallred wrote: post #379
drakonka wrote: post #378

Just a quick update - I can no longer reset my password, so either they have actually deleted my account now (great!) or just changed the email address. Either way there is no use speculating now as my profile page is a 404 and there is no way to tell with certainty one way or the other whether my account has actually been removed (I suppose one could try to register the username "Lazer", but I am way too sick of thi…

Thanks for this. It was really fun to watch a CEO completely torpedo his startup in less than 24 hours by publicly flipping the bird to a message board filled with its would-be users for some reason I cannot begin to fathom. 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 ligh…

> We should do this again sometime.

I completely understand the glee to be had watching a clueless CEO bumblefuck their customer relations, but I really do not wish for this to happen to anyone else.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by tptacek »

krapp wrote: post #147
tptacek wrote: post #140

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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?

At the very least, I would expect Y Combinator to try to invest in founders who don't need to be told that.

People have crazy unrealistic expectations of YC in this regard. They invest in 30-40 teams per batch, based on an application and a very short interview. That's a good thing for founders, and whatever else you might think of them, YC is the probably the most founder-positive force in the entire technology industry.

They're investors, not chaperons.

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