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eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

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Re: eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

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Post by thebruce87m »

> The acts of intimidation included sending live insects, a foetal pig and a funeral wreath to the Steiners' home in Natick, Massachusetts.

If someone I knew claimed that eBay execs were sending them things like this I wouldn’t believe them. It’s like something from a TV show.

Re: eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

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Post by kulahan »

arcastroe wrote: post #6

Curious, how were the executives caught? How was it proven that the harassment came from the executives?

eBay cooperated fully with the investigation and had no interest in protecting the ones who were caught. Maybe none of them, iunno the eBay office culture at all.

Re: eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

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Post by arcastroe »

arcastroe wrote: post #6

Curious, how were the executives caught? How was it proven that the harassment came from the executives?

Ah, answering my own question in case others are interested. Seems the bloggers were being followed by a van at one point and they were able to get the plates, which ultimately linked back to ebay.

I keep being impressed by ai's ability to perform research for you. "Found" the answer here:

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=xzz0am8o9ruxo4wztcc4v7xp

Re: eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case

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Post by heads »

ethbr1 wrote: post #2

Apologies for titling from deeper in article, but to do otherwise would be burying the lede. Also, life mirrors fiction: https://xkcd.com/325/

To this day I cannot accept that A+ is better than A-. Clearly the ordering is increasing in value with each letter and so a smaller value is better, and “-“ / minus gives you a slightly smaller value.

We accept that “A” comes before “B” so therefore “A” is better. “A-“ is smaller than “A” therefore “A-“ must be better!

  rank = [A- A A+ B- B B+ C- …]
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