Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software conference

Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by duxup on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:58PM (#19972000)

>Nevertheless, we didn’t expect a threatening reaction followed by several emails, Twitter DMs, persistent phone calls and Whatsapp messages. She even texted my girlfriend, one of the organizers of the conference, whose telephone number is not public and wasn’t given to her at any moment. At the same time, she started contacting other speakers of the conference.

At that point you know you made the right choice... the rest is mind boggling.

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Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by clarityPhone on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:29PM (#19973198)

Exactly. Her past pattern of poor behavior really speaks for itself.

I’d be interested if her husband has a similar reputation in his field. Shame we don’t have any names, if only so their actions yield some sort of consequence.

Hopefully court pans out in the author’s favor (assuming what he said is indeed the true rendition of events).

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Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by village-idiot on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:44PM (#19974777)

Assuming the story is true as presented. If he’s regularly getting in the habit of publicly attacking people his girlfriend is having conflict with, I am sure his reputation is about as toxic as hers.

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Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by igaray on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:16PM (#19973044)

Exactly this, you want to make the right choice and not be judgemental or act out of fear, but once the other party becomes needlessly belligerent one knows what to do.

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Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by bduerst on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:23PM (#19973131)

Right? If you're asked not to speak at a conference, why would you go on to consistently prove it was the right decision to remove you?

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Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by stlHusker on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:21PM (#19973859)

It is the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

As another person mentioned, DerbyCon got tired of dealing with it (https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-9-0-every-beginning-h...). And then had to respond to a bullshit storm related to their integrity a month later (https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-clarifications-inclus...).

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Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by chrisseaton on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:31PM (#19975801)

I could turn that around to you: why would you expect someone removed from a schedule for being known to be disruptive, to not be disruptive when removed?

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Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by unbalancedparen on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:25PM (#19973896)

Hello somebodyelse1. We had our commercial reasons to change the lineup. After living this, I think their reaction speaks for itself.

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Re:Bullshit I had to go through while organizing a software ... by duxup on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:53PM (#19974884)

Invited and then dis-invited doesn't seem to change much.

The response still seems way out of line / indicate the dis-invite was for good reason.

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