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Since the username was available again, probably someone else could have created a new profile with the username lazer.
What's funny is the message now has a different typo: a missing B in BANNED. The other profile details are different, though. I am inclined to believe it's a troll as well.
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> Commenters here should be considering scenarios in which glee would not be a humane response. Maybe I'm just having a brainfart, but I simply don't understand this sentence at all, and I really would like to. I'm really not trying to troll you, I just feel like this is an interesting statement that could use some clarification :)
Sorry, I don't usually go in for circumlocution but this is a tough one. Let me try again. There may be factors beyond 'obvious bad behavior deserving of mob wrath', which (if they knew what they were) would make some commenters here ashamed of what they've posted. For example, I think most people would be ashamed to publicly express glee over something that turned out to be, say, a health issue. Sometimes in cases l…
This does to me look like something problematic might be going on health-wise. I can relate to a tiny extent: I sometimes have a harder time processing life than average due to high-functioning autism, and I reckon there are certainly circumstances and situations that might well overload my system and provoke Undefined Behavior due to the stress, but not nearly like this.
I have showdead turned on, and DrMJG_HN's posts show a truly impressive level of paranoia that I don't think I've ever seen before. My reaction is an unobjective sort of pity (for want of a better way to say it; maybe I'm referring to empathy): there's a person behind those posts, and they deserve a better frame of mind than they seem to have right now.
I reckon HN's reaction to this - and your explanation, for those who needed it - has been really great.
Besides enabling showdead in Arc's settings (for objective purposes only, I should reiterate!), I thought the most informative post in this thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489225, which mentioned https://www.reddit.com/r/timferriss/comments/3g2mjg/tim_ferr... written by livecoding.tv's cofounder.
So it really looks like the new profile _was_ deleted by Livecoding and then registered by someone else, who initially put a modified version of the libel back onto it and has now linked to their own video. I would like to stress that this really does _not seem_ to be Michael's doing this time, but a third party who saw this and grabbed my previous username. On a slightly different note - I have seen some people expr…
Totally fair.
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I may be jumping to conclusions, but this reddit comment by Jamie Green may shed some light over his situation... https://www.reddit.com/r/timferriss/comments/3g2mjg/tim_ferr...
Feel sorry for Jamie. See also the latest twitter comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10488919
"Startup L. Jackson @StartupLJackson Sep 4
[Startup L. Jackson Retweeted Ced]
How to make your team completely ineffective.
Treat communication & collaboration w hostility.
Done."
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Because the founders suck at dealing with users. YC doesn't run your company for you.
YC doesn't run your company for you, but a big point of YC is that they provide advice and guidance. As they say in an article [1] linked from the YC FAQ: Most people don’t do YC for the financial investment—they do it because they want the advice, the help of the network, the benefits of the program. Heck, for a long time YC only invested something like $20k and got something like 7% of your company. From a money po…
This has gone beyond PR disaster theater and become an outlier. I've temporarily banned Michael's account until it is resolved. Commenters here should be considering scenarios in which glee would not be a humane response to all this.
It is sad that this was necessary, and we can just hope that Michael will be able to post a serious answer to this debacle.