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My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by tomcam »

Dear Liza:

We're gobsmacked to find an actual female posting to Hacker News. Cool! It's nice to see the ladies posting about something other than makeup or boy problems.

Could you let us know what your posting schedule for HN would be? And if you have any other friends with ovaries who know vim from vi could you get them posting regularly, preferably scantily clad or at least posting an occasional screen shot of their coding sessions to Pinterest in between Jimmy Choo haul videos?

Please let me know your weekly schedule so we can send updates to everyone on Hacker News with a Y chromosome!!

Your pals at HN

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by eli »

benologist wrote: post #117
nemexy wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really did not wanted to blame YC. My mention of them is mostly because they are the biggest incubator, so people who get in should have at least minimum amount of marketing skills. They literally make fool of themselves in front of their main "customers" and apparantly we are still talking about one of the cofounders. You are trying to run companies worth millions and do such stupid mistakes, it is just beyond und…

Founders of Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Linux, Oracle, Tesla and probably many more have been famous for childish or angry stuff. It's not very uncommon.

Jeff Bezos is allegedly a sometimes difficult person to work for, but Amazon treats its customers extremely well.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by dang »

tomcam wrote: post #211

Dear Liza: We're gobsmacked to find an actual female posting to Hacker News. Cool! It's nice to see the ladies posting about something other than makeup or boy problems. Could you let us know what your posting schedule for HN would be? And if you have any other friends with ovaries who know vim from vi could you get them posting regularly, preferably scantily clad or at least posting an occasional screen shot of thei…

I'm going to assume that this is a seriously misfired joke instead of the bannable offense it initially looked like, but please don't post anything like this to HN.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by empressplay »

So, 12 hours on and the account still hasn't been deleted...

I mean, at this point you have to assume none of the co-founders has the ability to delete it (because common sense would suggest they would have by now, if they could have, to mitigate the on-going public-relations disaster) probably because they outsourced all of their development and really have no clue about how their website actually works.

Under normal circumstances, this could be understandable, but I think there's an obvious irony when the site in question streams people, well, coding!

Now, I suppose it's fair to argue you don't need to know rocket science to make a space game either, but in this case, I'd think there'd be an expectation the people running the site actually at least kinda-sorta know how to code themselves.

Or at least be able to delete some records from a database.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by brazzledazzle »

austenallred wrote: post #190
s5edvvddd wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the last 30 minutes they fixed the misspelling but kept the text as it is. This means someone is currently following this problem and thinks they are in the right by doing this.

This is incredible. I've never seen anything like this in my entire life. A company blatantly pissing off much of its would-be userbase and sticking to its grossly incompetent guns, obviously not caring at all. I literally cannot imagine a way they could handle this more poorly.

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

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by drakonka »

moron4hire wrote: post #196
drakonka wrote: post #31

It looks like Livecoding have now updated my profile for me, to claim I am "spamming them": https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

I had started using Livecoding.TV about 4 months ago, but had to take a break to move house. I got spammed by them quite a bit to start streaming again. I'm sorry I'm not helping you build a revenue stream, but seriously, get off my case. What is the narrative you think these emails are fulfilling? Did anyone ever stop using a site because they just forgot? "Oh yeah, I think I remember that site I had been using for…

Ah I remember them pushing t-shirts fairly hard in email at some point a few months ago. I think I got some sort of email or internal Livecoding message about having won a t-shirt or _something_ of the sort. I would have to give them my address to receive the item and considered it but never went through with it I think. From memory they claimed to have made the offer based on some sort of user criteria, like a "You did this so we are giving you a free x!"

A few days later I get another message saying the first message offering the free item was a mistake, and that I wasn't invited to have one after all. Can't say I was too torn up.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by bhrgunatha »

snake117 wrote: post #195
vertis wrote: post #178

Slightly unrelated note, but I received a spam email from Michael@Livecoding.tv on Saturday. I will NEVER EVER use a site that spams like this: > Hey Luke, > I've been searching code repos and found that you also love coding. Would be cool to see your awesome code and projects on Livecoding.tv > Livecoding.tv is a livestreaming platform for coders to share their code and hang out. We have users from 194 countries and…

This reminded me of Eli the Computer Guy's rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h66PNIUtaaE

That was posted in July. They clearly haven't changed their approach or tactics. It's unbelievably short-sighted and damaging.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by brazzledazzle »

tptacek wrote: post #142
jamiegreen wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi drakonka, I have only just found out about this, and was until now not aware of what happened. I don't know why my cofounder Michael marked you as spam, and I will ask him to contact you. I can only apologise for the handling of your account deletion, it really is not acceptable that it took so long, so we will make it a priority to improve this.

What's wrong with you? Take the page down. There's a whole HN thread sitting here hitting fucking refresh on it over and over again waiting to see how much more drama your insane team can generate over this. Are you running a company, or a very elaborate piece of nerd performance art?

Normally I'm not a fan of comments like this but this guy is running a company, a YC backed one in fact, and I think the application of a clue stick might be just what's needed.
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