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The russian guy comes up with russian names for his sockpuppet chick accounts. Is that to explain away the grammar?
It's not exactly correct to call every ex-Eastern Block actor russian by default. The guy's name spelling is Latvian and one of the speakers' surname is Ukrainian.
>> IP logs from a forum for programmers obtained by 404 Media I am more interested in what forums is turning over their IP logs to the media, what the privacy policy was for that forum, and if other members of that forum know this is happening
If you create sockpuppets on a forum for the purpose of fraudulently establishing a fake identity to sell conference tickets, I don’t think you have an expectation of privacy with respect to server logs that establish that. Same as if you rob a bodega, you don’t expect privacy rights over the CCTV footage.
>> IP logs from a forum for programmers obtained by 404 Media I am more interested in what forums is turning over their IP logs to the media, what the privacy policy was for that forum, and if other members of that forum know this is happening
If you create sockpuppets on a forum for the purpose of fraudulently establishing a fake identity to sell conference tickets, I don’t think you have an expectation of privacy with respect to server logs that establish that. Same as if you rob a bodega, you don’t expect privacy rights over the CCTV footage.
[1] https://www-mtvuutiset-fi.translate.goog/artikkeli/huoltoase...
>> IP logs from a forum for programmers obtained by 404 Media I am more interested in what forums is turning over their IP logs to the media, what the privacy policy was for that forum, and if other members of that forum know this is happening
Hi, I'm the forum admin who banned Sizovs for suckpuppeting a few years ago: https://lobste.rs/s/s67tjc/don_t_learn_too_many_things#c_nfn... I know this is pure whataboutism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism ), but I don't have any duty to keep the secrets of sockpuppeting spammers; the forum privacy policy is short and unambiguous. No members have expressed concerns over me banning his accounts in 2019, i…
My suggestion to enhance diversity among conference presenters: each top presenter could bring a “plus one” from an underrepresented group to co-present. Alternatively, they could opt to forfeit their spot and locate someone in their professional network who can represent both a minority group and, if possible, deliver the original presentation.
so top male speakers are attracted by fake female speakers. what does that say about them top male speakers?
My suggestion to enhance diversity among conference presenters: each top presenter could bring a “plus one” from an underrepresented group to co-present. Alternatively, they could opt to forfeit their spot and locate someone in their professional network who can represent both a minority group and, if possible, deliver the original presentation.
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So we are all missing the point that the organizer LIED around and he's being rightfully punished for that?
Seems like the lesson here is that nobody wants to go to the party unless they know who else is going to be there. Makes kind of a chicken and egg problem. Not surprised that this type of fakery is going on. Reminds me of VC rounds where nobody wants to be the first in and if you get a big name everybody FOMOs in. Not surprising to me that the same guy who runs the conference also runs influencer accounts because it…
This may indeed be tricky, but if it was "just" that he'd been sneaky about it to get the ball rolling and he subsequently had fixed the issue by replacing the fake women with real women before starting to sign up attendees it'd have been a lot easier to have sympathy.