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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by throwawaysleep on Thursday January 09, 2025 @01:29AM (#42642207)
Not really. SO probably doesn't want to be dealing with this stuff at all.
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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by edflsafoiewq on Thursday January 09, 2025 @01:30AM (#42642211)
Then they should have simply done nothing.
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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by throwawaysleep on Thursday January 09, 2025 @01:31AM (#42642221)
Can't do nothing, as his account was being treated as a shrine. I don't think they want to be the Luigi Magione Shrine website either.
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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by Shog9 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:08AM (#42642479)
As Evan points out in TFA, this has happened before.

I'll add that it has happened more than a few times.

Past response was to shut down inappropriate behavior in the now (folks rambling on about the person in comments under some programming question, etc.) and let the temporary interest die out on its own.

This time... The response seems to be inviting the Streisand Effect.

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by EvanCarroll on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:15PM (#42689468) 

  NOTE TO ALL PERSPECTIVE WHISTLE BLOWERS
  EVEN THE ANNOYING ONES THAT HAVE A LONG
  ESTABLISHED HISTORY OF BEING JERKS:

    YOU CAN REACH EVAN VIA SIGNAL
    281.901.0011.

    OLIVE BRANCH, ETC.
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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by perlgeek on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:20AM (#42644157)
> Can't do nothing, as his account was being treated as a shrine.

So what. He gets a few upvotes. What's the harm for the users, or the platform?

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by johnnyanmac on Friday January 10, 2025 @09:51AM (#42656053)
And? I don't see that as a reason to break CC license.

If you're gonna expunge someone, don't half-ass it.

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