Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension

Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by mhb on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:29AM (#33999193)

How does Medium link what some person does as a project to some person who puts content on Medium? What's their authentication mechanism for doing this linking? Maybe he just said "Yeah, that's me."?

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Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by pedro_hab on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:47AM (#33999387)

He probably wrote an medium article on it. lol

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Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by henrylim96 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:24AM (#33999909)

No. I was too lazy to write an article for that The only place I mentioned it was on my Twitter (https://twitter.com/henrylim96/status/1529055034385780737) and on my GitHub.

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Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by mhb on Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:45PM (#34003795)

So how did they make the connection?

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Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by 10000truths on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:29PM (#34004414)

I was able to find his Medium page by looking up "henrylim96 medium". What's troubling to me is that this isn't some trigger-happy autoban - someone had to actively seek him out. It could have been someone who "snitched" on him, or (I suspect) a Medium employee.

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Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by mhb on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:19PM (#34005119)

So it's assumed that someone who has a pseudonym on Twitter is the same entity that uses that pseudonym on Medium?

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Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by aliqot on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:28PM (#34005245)

I know of a few ways we can test this theory. We're going to need a short list of popular publishers on Medium.

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