Employee #1: Dropbox

Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by pensive_returns on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:38PM (#12534085)

An interesting titbit Aston leaves out about his early days is that he was actually cofounder of AutoAdmit.com[0], a law school admissions forum, semi-notorious for its defamation lawsuits and being an incubator for troll, Michael O. Church[1] (banned on Quora, Wikipedia, and Hacker News for being a thorn in Paul Graham and Dan G, sides) that formed after the great Princeton Review Discussion Board exodus and has persisted with an active user base for almost 13 years now. I wonder if he's ashamed of that history since he fails to mention it (despite it being on his early resume!).

[0] http://www.autoadmit.com/ [1] https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by idlewords on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:41PM (#12534103)

What is the connection between AutoAdmit and Church? I don't understand how he's relevant here.

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by hopethathelps on Thursday September 22, 2016 @09:35PM (#12561727)

Church used to post obsessively on AutoAdmit under the name "pensive" and have lengthy conversations with sockpuppet accounts.

Draw your own conclusions.

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by saintzozo on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:45PM (#12534537)

Yes, this is very puzzling.

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by pensive_returns on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:48PM (#12534161)

Church is from autoadmit and probably well known to Aston (since they were both part of the PR community).

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by ones_and_zeros on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:19PM (#12534353)

Michael O. Church a troll? Please.

The guy had an odd view of himself but I always found he provided excellent well thought out analysis and arguments. I'm not saying he is always right, but he wasn't a troll.

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by tptacek on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:58PM (#12536116)

Are we sure "pensive_returns" isn't Michael O. Church? Serious question: commenters on HN that write in an idiosyncratic fashion about Church have turned out to be him before.

Every time I read a comment about Church, I find myself asking, "is this how a normal person would write about someone best known for commenting on message boards?"

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by jpatokal on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @11:08PM (#12545111)

He certainly appears to have joined Hacker News for the sole purpose of sharing this pearl of wisdom with us:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pensive_returns

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by ones_and_zeros on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:57AM (#12539119)

Could be, kinda weird he got banned from all of those places, though I'm not familiar with Quora or autoadmit.

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by gadders on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @06:47AM (#12538474)

I think they should let him back in. He was an entertaining read.

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by ones_and_zeros on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:46AM (#12539054)

This was actually news to me that he got banned. Can't imagine what he did to deserve that.

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by wglb on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @09:13AM (#12539233)

It was this thread that finally did it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by oh_sigh on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:49PM (#12535419)

Thanks Michael.

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Re:Employee #1: Dropbox by saintzozo on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:31PM (#12534451)

sup pensive

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