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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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I don't know of any friends creating multiple accounts at all. If anything my friends learned to _never_ create an account with your site. I would also appreciate it if you did not "play dumb" in your communications with me. To be honest I can't believe this is actually still happening: http://i.imgur.com/NT6xH5X.png

Near the bottom on the imgur link: ``` I think it is just a complete misunderstanding you have ``` I might be wrong. But this is almost border line delusional!

It seems to be a go-to phrase for him. From a video linked elsewhere on this page: https://youtu.be/h66PNIUtaaE?t=17m38s

That video was posted in July...

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Seems like the guy does not need any external help ruining his business.

It’s Peter’s law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle > In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

I don't really think this is the case. I think it's just a case of hyper-defensiveness going hyper-wrong. And I am truly sorry for this guy.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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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.

> This has gone beyond PR disaster theater

I'm not sure this is a PR disaster. Googling, I only see major coverage in this HN thread, and on /r/technology on Reddit. There was a big thread on /r/programming but the mods there deleted that. There are another several discussions on assorted minor subreddits.

None of the major tech news sites or blogs seem to be picking it up. /r/technology can be enough of a cesspool that many tech people don't bother with it. Unless the news sites and blogs are just waiting for more information before running their stories, it looks like this might blow over with little damage to livecoding.tv.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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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.

> This has gone beyond PR disaster theater I'm not sure this is a PR disaster. Googling, I only see major coverage in this HN thread, and on /r/technology on Reddit. There was a big thread on /r/programming but the mods there deleted that. There are another several discussions on assorted minor subreddits. None of the major tech news sites or blogs seem to be picking it up. /r/technology can be enough of a cesspool t…

"Might" is quite a stretch here. A search for "livecoding" now ranks this thread in the #2 spot, just after the site in question. The damage has already been done, I think.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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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.

> This has gone beyond PR disaster theater I'm not sure this is a PR disaster. Googling, I only see major coverage in this HN thread, and on /r/technology on Reddit. There was a big thread on /r/programming but the mods there deleted that. There are another several discussions on assorted minor subreddits. None of the major tech news sites or blogs seem to be picking it up. /r/technology can be enough of a cesspool t…

I think the public here is the Hacker News/SV SWE community. As others have said, a good portion of livecoding's target demographic now has a negative view of their management.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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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 :)

I think they're suggesting that there's an explanation for Michael's errant behaviour that we should be more sympathetic toward. I don't buy it, though.

The mental illness hypothesis seems disturbingly close to home here. Nothing justifies egregious behavior but we could be more compassionate for the people involved.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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It seems to me that this guy ("Dr" Michael Garbade) is just a complete fraud. His supposed doctoral thesis can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/mjmjg/differences-in-venture-capit... I mean, just read this small snippet. It honestly seems like it was written by an average high school freshman... ========================================== 1.2 Research Objectives Although there are certainly differences in the v…

What you're doing in this comment comes quite close to the doxxing tactics people condemn here Michael for. The quality of his PhD thesis is completely irrelevant to this thread.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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As austenallred mentioned, I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.

But by linking mental illness to scumbag behaviour you're making life worse for all the people with mental illness who aren't scumbags - which is most of them.

A group that I am a member of. Perhaps I'm biased but I don't feel like my life is particularly worsened.

I've had the misfortune of bearing witness to paranoia fueled by both mental illness and drug abuse (and a combination of both). I've also worked with and for unapologetic assholes. There are things about this case and his communications that have me leaning toward the former.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Not sure if someone recreated your account for laughs but it's up again with the same spamming accusation in the profile.

That's a good point, I suppose it's possible someone just recreated it as a joke. At this point I wouldn't put it past either the CEO _or_ some random internet troll.

Yeah, once you're at the point where someone can't distinguish your behavior from that of a troll, well...

At any rate, they should have done something to prevent anyone from registering with your username. Even if it's just a one off redirect on their reverse proxy/gateway.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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I think actual deletion of accounts is not a functionality that is high on any startups list - disabling is probably the usual course of action? However, to lie about it is another matter entirely.

It is a legal requirement in the EU under Data Protection Laws.

Outright deletion of data, especially anything used in financial calculations, might run afoul of Sarbanes-Oxley in the United States.

I say "might" because it's not exactly spelled out that way in the regulation. Basically, any sort of reports that are used to make financial decisions must be replicable. You have to be able to show an auditor how you came to your numbers. You have to show how the report would have looked at the time it was made, and what data it would have contained.

I could potentially see raw count of users, or counts of users combined with popularity of videos (and growth of popularity across those videos) be a part of plans on how to monetize such a site. If Livecoding.TV had made revenue projections based on some future monetization plan and had started circulating this plan amongst potential investors, it becomes a serious landmine to hard-delete data.

Most places assume this just means "keep backups", but I don't know anyone who is operationally prepared to restore year-old backups of databases and running application code to be able to appease such an auditor. Full compliance is really hard, so I almost always advise people to go for soft-delete instead. There are any number of technical and business reasons why soft-delete is better, too. If this report that a 3rd party registered a new account with the same name just to be able to troll everyone involved turns out to be true, that would be one of those reasons.

That said, that's a completely different issue than privacy compliance. Any sane authorization system should make it easy to de-authorize specific sets of data for everyone. No data request meant to go out into the world should ever lack an authorization check. Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on internal- versus external data, I just generally believe all data requests should come along with an authorization check, regardless of whether or not it's required, because you can't ever really predict what code a jr. programmer is going to reuse some day.

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