Thanks, I hope you guys can get somewhere. I'm preparing a complaint to file with the ICO and looking into other options since nothing else seems to have worked and I have no idea what else to do, but really I just want to have my account deleted and move on. I can't believe a simple support ticket spun out into this debacle.

Please sue them for libel.

"You seem to enjoy this whole thread, but very coward that you hide your real identity. Can you at least post your Linkedin profile url as comment so people understand how to take your comments in this thread?"

Michael, you really need to stop harassing the OP. You're destroying your company.

Edit: I guess by this point it's clear you don't care about your company. But you've tormented the OP constantly -- have some human decency.

What are you talking about? My LinkedIn profile and contact details are on the website this thread is linking to, not to mention you plastered my full name all over my Livecoding profile last night, so it's not exactly a secret. Or did you think you were replying to some other comment?

Either he was replying to another comment or is delusional at this moment.

I think he's replied to three of my comments so far with these kinds of messages, it seems like he's not actually bothering to check which comments he's replying to.

He commented the same to one of my comments, even accusing me of online harassment and other things.

I'm currently at the post office buying stamps for an international letter, so I can send a C&D.

This is the weirdest exchange between a business and its customers I've ever seen.

I filed an ICO report early this morning, but not sure how far that will get to be honest. I am not familiar with the UK's systems or what they will bother to do with this, if anything.

Well, we can only hope they change something, delete your personal data, and publicly apologise. If you'd go to court, you could probably even demand money for the damage to your reputation they tried to create, but court is expensive in these cases.

Let's see what they will do, maybe once it hits their lawyers and they are personally at risk they turn reasonable. Or at least their lawyers prevent them from doing more shit.

Now, don't forget to recommend livecoding.tv to all your female friends.

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.

Yes, probably.

This is extremely sad to watch. A real disaster going on.

You're holding good, you stay correct and calm all the time. Respect for that. Hold on, with this tempo this will be over soon.

Лёша

We have a record of you doxxing a user on your site. Even with wrong info.

Providing you with any personal details for any reason would be extremely unwise at this moment.

Neither in this thread.

Nor on your website.

I'm concerned that many comments on this suggest that the problem is that the CEO needs better PR. It's scarier to me that this sort of behavior could hide behind PR. For tech in general I think ethics needs to be considered more than PR, as that's the heart of the matter. Clearly, those who've signed up for Livecoding are somewhat scared that this team has their data. I understand YC can't run these companies, but I think we do look at YC investment as a sort of assurance that this sort of thing won't happen.

I have never 'spammed' livecoding.tv nor have I ever been warned or banned by their support team (or by any online company for that matter). I don't have a website. I'm not in Indiana, either. (I decided to reply to my own comment, as I don't want to agitate the situation by directly replying to the other comment).

You obviously don't trust the motives of the people posting here. That's fine, but perhaps you could phone whoever is your contact at YC for some friendly advice? Their interests are aligned with yours.

I really get the impression that you don't see how bad your comments in this thread are. It's difficult when you're in the middle of something to take a step back and see it from other peoples perspective but you would really do yourself a favour if you just stopped posting here altogether at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if the op took your posts and made them into a follow-up blog post.

How do you think pseudo-doxxing someone on a message board helps you at this point? This is just creepy.

Take a look at the original archive.is image which the author posted. You'll notice that the company spelled its own name wrong:

https://archive.is/T3Ms7

I just loaded up her page a few minutes ago and they fixed the spelling. An image is here:

http://imgur.com/pqW4tbC

Pardon my language, but it's fucked up that someone with access changed the spelling but didn't have enough sense to just remove the whole 'banned for spamming'. Especially in light of the fact that one of the founders replied on this thread eight hours ago.

This doesn't seem like the typical bad customer service incident. I'm not trying to excuse this behaviour (because it's wrong on every level), but I really hope that everyone in that company is mentally healthy and safe.

This is really odd, though it may reveal the dynamic between the founders. Wonder what the conversations have been, and if any even occurred.