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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by minimaxir on Sunday November 01, 2015 @02:24PM (#10487727) 

   DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV
   Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv

   BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING

   BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING+

   BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING
...did they mispell their own startup in their vandalism?

Also, per her LinkedIn, the OP works for DICE the game-development studio (subsidiary of EA, made Battlefield, etc.), not Dice.com (job hunting site).

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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by s5edvvddd on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:06PM (#10488292)
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.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by austenallred on Sunday November 01, 2015 @07:23PM (#10489191)
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.

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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by brazzledazzle on Sunday November 01, 2015 @10:14PM (#10489772)
This has to be mental illness or drugs. Completely bizarre.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by brighteyes on Monday November 02, 2015 @12:02AM (#10490090)
Another possibility, but not a likely one, is that the site has been hacked by someone that is trying to make them look as bad as possible.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by brazzledazzle on Monday November 02, 2015 @12:22PM (#10493307)
Unless this hacker was able to get the COO's HN account as well that seems unlikely. And even then a call to someone at YC to jump into the thread and let everyone know it was a hack wouldn't be too hard.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by facetube on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:23AM (#10490673)
Yeah, their CEO. cymbal
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by DanBC on Monday November 02, 2015 @06:29AM (#10491271)
Bit frustrating that you see poor behaviour that's hard to understand and leap to "mentally ill", rather than "scumbag".
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by austenallred on Monday November 02, 2015 @06:57AM (#10491374)
That's just trying desperately to give the benefit of the doubt. "Surely no one would be this bad on purpose."
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by brazzledazzle on Monday November 02, 2015 @12:04PM (#10493106)
As austenallred mentioned, I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by DanBC on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:54PM (#10495148)
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.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by brazzledazzle on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:24PM (#10496482)
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.

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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by phpnode on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:34PM (#10488420)
This behaviour is absolutely incredible, probably the most tone-deaf response I've ever seen.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by deepnet on Sunday November 01, 2015 @04:41PM (#10488460)
Good catch.

The vitriol was spelt LIIVECODING now it has been corrected to LIVECODING - wow, just wow.

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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by nickysielicki on Sunday November 01, 2015 @06:29PM (#10488976)
It's like watching sourceforge implode all over again.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by yokohummer7 on Sunday November 01, 2015 @09:08PM (#10489536)
I wonder why they didn't fix the plus sign.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by tymekpavel on Sunday November 01, 2015 @03:01PM (#10487922)
If she didn't provide her name and employer as part of registration, this isn't just vandalism -- it's stalking and harassment.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by prawn on Sunday November 01, 2015 @05:35PM (#10488719)
Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv

Is that legally irresponsible naming someone in full and directly implying they were responsible for a negative action?

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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by tymekpavel on Sunday November 01, 2015 @05:41PM (#10488745)
Yes, LiveCoding.tv can be sued for libel.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by 467568985476 on Sunday November 01, 2015 @02:55PM (#10487879)
Wow, that is insane. These guys are a YC backed company?!
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by deadcoding on Sunday November 01, 2015 @06:11PM (#10488899)
If it is they need to pull funding immediately.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by omegaham on Sunday November 01, 2015 @11:55PM (#10490066)
As far as I know, Y Combinator invests a lump sum and then contributes mentorship. Their only real recourse is to say, "Sorry, we've decided that you're not worth our time" and to terminate all work with the company.

Which, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they do.

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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by gkop on Monday November 02, 2015 @12:25AM (#10490183)
> To maintain our community, if a founder behaves unethically during or after YC, we will revoke their YC founder status. This includes access to all Y Combinator spaces, software, lists and events. All founders in a company may be held responsible for the unethical actions of a single co-founder or a company employee, depending on the circumstances.

https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/

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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by yokohummer7 on Sunday November 01, 2015 @02:48PM (#10487839)
It is also interesting that only the second line has a plus sign at the end. I'll have to infer the meaning of that.
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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by detaro on Sunday November 01, 2015 @06:12PM (#10488904)
I have a mental image of an angry person mashing

CTRL+V, RETURN, RETURN,

CTRL+V, RETURN, RETURN, CTRL+V and then accidentally hitting + together with RETURN....

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Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga by davidw on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:40PM (#10495484)
I can imagine that too. Rational people would of course use ctrl-y.
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