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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by Lewton »

denniskane wrote: post #408
SamReidHughes wrote: post #405

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

>I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude

What a terrible attitude

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by mauz »

drakonka wrote: post #417
mauz wrote: post #415

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Wow

It looks like they _removed_ my username and profile, then _recreated_ it just for the sole purpose of this. This is pretty amazing.

This is the weirdest sequence of events I've ever seen from a company. At this point, from the point of view from someone that's not involved in this, it's more intriguing than it is frustrating.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by brazzledazzle »

brighteyes wrote: post #241
brazzledazzle wrote: post #217

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This has to be mental illness or drugs. Completely bizarre.

Another possibility, but not a likely one, is that the site has been hacked by someone that is trying to make them look as bad as possible.

Unless this hacker was able to get the COO's HN account as well that seems unlikely. And even then a call to someone at YC to jump into the thread and let everyone know it was a hack wouldn't be too hard.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by drakonka »

brazzledazzle wrote: post #420
drakonka wrote: post #271

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Wow, it is! After all this time, I've never been so happy to see a 404.

Not sure if someone recreated your account for laughs but it's up again with the same spamming accusation in the profile.

That's a good point, I suppose it's possible someone just recreated it as a joke. At this point I wouldn't put it past either the CEO _or_ some random internet troll.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by drakonka »

mauz wrote: post #422
drakonka wrote: post #417

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like they _removed_ my username and profile, then _recreated_ it just for the sole purpose of this. This is pretty amazing.

This is the weirdest sequence of events I've ever seen from a company. At this point, from the point of view from someone that's not involved in this, it's more intriguing than it is frustrating.

Someone else pointed out elsewhere that maybe it was just a troll recreating the profile and not Livecoding themselves. I suppose that's possible, too.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by [deleted] »

drakonka wrote: post #418
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…

Update to the update...my profile is now back, again with accusations of spam: https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by liamuk »

denniskane wrote: post #408
SamReidHughes wrote: post #405

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude.

Nobody is fully good or evil. This guy is certainly in the wrong here, but that doesn't make everything he's ever done worthy of ridicule.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by aebersold »

drakonka wrote: post #418
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…

Update to the update...my profile is now back, again with accusations of spam: https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

Since the username was available again, probably someone else could have created a new profile with the username lazer.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by fyarebox »

drakonka wrote: post #414

Well, it looks like my profile is back again...again with accusations of spam... https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

Wow. This could be another user re-creating the account to create drama, though. Is the rest of the profile info (favorite line of code, etc.) the same?

I wouldn't call it impossible, but this seems like such a deliberately bad move that I can't even believe it was done by livecoding.tv

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by drakonka »

aebersold wrote: post #428
drakonka wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Update to the update...my profile is now back, again with accusations of spam: https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

Since the username was available again, probably someone else could have created a new profile with the username lazer.

You're right, very possible it's just a troll at this point.
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