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TechCrunch is a bully

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Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by option_greek »

famousactress wrote: post #41
ChuckMcM wrote: post #37

I'd like your leave to go a bit meta here, hope you don't mind. What I find interesting about this exchange (the original TC article and Lanewood's response) is the message "don't do this because it hurts." Yes, it does. But my experience is that pain is a signal you listen to, it's one of those things that says "stop doing what you are doing." It is a corrective force. Making exaggerated claims about your influence…

So, first off I don't give a fuck about the story, or the counter story, or people who photoshop themselves with celebrities, or people who care about whether people really know celebrities, or techcrunch. That said, I wanted to contrast the HN reaction to this story with the HN reaction to the kid who slept at AOL. I figure in both cases we're talking about someone who did something deceptive and wrong in the suppos…

May be its just too personal when you manipulate people ? As I remember, that kid was using his already expired id card to use the premises not lying outright that he is an employee to everyone.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by unreal37 »

herval wrote: post #33
unreal37 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What am I missing? What do you know that you're not saying? I can't find anything in the original TC article that said "she blatantly lied many times about many things to high profile people". Who did she lie to? What was the lie? Was it a lie or just an exaggeration? The TC article mentions Founders Fund a bunch, and not much else.

So, photoshopping yourself into pictures with several different people is "an exaggeration" to you?

Its certainly not "lying many times to many different powerful people" and deserving a big TC article. I once photoshopped a friend of mine next to George Clooney as a joke - where's my TC article?

We have no idea where those photos are from, or what she claimed when she posted them, or even if she was the one who photoshopped them, or a friend did or a stranger. There's no context to them, and no claims in the article that she ever said "I met Justin Timberlake". It's just innuendo even having them there.

It does seem like she does hang out with some famous people, as her Twitpic has pics of Rick Fox, Jack Dorsey, and others sitting around in casual contexts. Couldn't find the photoshopped pics though.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by angryasian »

unreal37 wrote: post #29
jamiequint wrote: post #8

I'm pretty sure if you misrepresent yourself that blatantly time and time again you deserve what is coming to you. "she has the top media company in the tech industry trying to take her down." Oh please, she blatantly lied many times about many things to high profile people. That is a story and its going to get written about by someone whether its Techcrunch or someone else.

What am I missing? What do you know that you're not saying? I can't find anything in the original TC article that said "she blatantly lied many times about many things to high profile people". Who did she lie to? What was the lie? Was it a lie or just an exaggeration? The TC article mentions Founders Fund a bunch, and not much else.

i thought it was mentioned many startups paid for her contracting services because of her so called connections. as far as I'm concerned thats fraud.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by softbuilder »

>It’s like reading a middle school girl’s diary.

Exactly this. There was no point to the story. Sure, I'll buy that the lady is a headcase/creeper or whatever. But that's it? No real crimes detailed or list of people screwed over? It was just a finger-pointing "hate this person right here" piece.

Cyberbullying doesn't just happen to kids.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by xenen »

Exaggerating your connections to others to try and hustle favors and more connections is one thing, but photoshopping yourself into photos with celebrities is pretty damn creepy no matter how you look at it.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by unreal37 »

angryasian wrote: post #53
unreal37 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What am I missing? What do you know that you're not saying? I can't find anything in the original TC article that said "she blatantly lied many times about many things to high profile people". Who did she lie to? What was the lie? Was it a lie or just an exaggeration? The TC article mentions Founders Fund a bunch, and not much else.

i thought it was mentioned many startups paid for her contracting services because of her so called connections. as far as I'm concerned thats fraud.

Name one that says they were defrauded? And shouldn't they be suing over that? More innuendo not backed up by any proof in the article. Not even one quote from anonymous CEOs to be had.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by benatkin »

herval wrote: post #33
unreal37 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What am I missing? What do you know that you're not saying? I can't find anything in the original TC article that said "she blatantly lied many times about many things to high profile people". Who did she lie to? What was the lie? Was it a lie or just an exaggeration? The TC article mentions Founders Fund a bunch, and not much else.

So, photoshopping yourself into pictures with several different people is "an exaggeration" to you?

If she had only photoshopped herself into a picture with one person, I would have been more inclined to see it as malice. This is because it would have been more believable that she was trying to mislead people in power. With several different people I get the idea she was trying to mislead only gullible people. This is scandalous in a Hollywood sort of way. Some people think it's awful that Silicon Valley has gone this way, but I gave up worrying about Silicon Valley culture a long time ago. I'm not a fan of this type of behavior but neither do I appreciate a tabloid getting indignant about something that's so unsurprising.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by leoh »

Yes, TC is a bully. Not only that, Arrington is a major con artist. Half the people in the valley these days are con artists. It's like this girl was the scape goat for this overwhelming shitstorm of lies that has grown the past few years. Pathetic.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by chacham15 »

nameuserc wrote: post #39
samstave wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I agree with your not being on a side - my personal opinion is this: Techcrunch was founded and run by a douchebag - thus douchebaggery is in its DNA.

Unfortunately this is true. I'm not sure all that many people know where the founder came from, i.e., the type of stuff he was doing before TechCrunch, and the company he worked for - a company responsible for a very large portion of some of the purest douchbaggery to be found anywhere on the web. The lowest of the low. They do some very dirty work. I'd even guess there are "innocent" people working at TC who do not…

Im sorry, but this is ridiculously unfair. Dont judge a company by what just one person in it has done. Everyone has made mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by learc83 »

nateberkopec wrote: post #26

Listen, this just proves that TC is a gossip rag, but, you're going to defend someone who is literally Photoshopping themselves into photos with celebrities and claiming that they're real? Uhh.

If you'll notice the article never mentioned any context for the pictures, just kind of put them out there for the reader to draw conclusions.

Was it a joke between friends, or an actual attempt to defraud people. Who knows? The article certainly didn't offer any evidence either way.

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