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   DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV
   Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv

   BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING

   BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING+

   BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING

...did they mispell their own startup in their vandalism?

Also, per her LinkedIn, the OP works for DICE the game-development studio (subsidiary of EA, made Battlefield, etc.), not Dice.com (job hunting site).

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In the last 30 minutes they fixed the misspelling but kept the text as it is. This means someone is currently following this problem and thinks they are in the right by doing this.

This is incredible. I've never seen anything like this in my entire life.

A company blatantly pissing off much of its would-be userbase and sticking to its grossly incompetent guns, obviously not caring at all.

I literally cannot imagine a way they could handle this more poorly.

This has to be mental illness or drugs. Completely bizarre.

Another possibility, but not a likely one, is that the site has been hacked by someone that is trying to make them look as bad as possible.

Unless this hacker was able to get the COO's HN account as well that seems unlikely. And even then a call to someone at YC to jump into the thread and let everyone know it was a hack wouldn't be too hard.

Yeah, their CEO. cymbal

Bit frustrating that you see poor behaviour that's hard to understand and leap to "mentally ill", rather than "scumbag".

That's just trying desperately to give the benefit of the doubt. "Surely no one would be this bad on purpose."

As austenallred mentioned, I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt.

But by linking mental illness to scumbag behaviour you're making life worse for all the people with mental illness who aren't scumbags - which is most of them.

A group that I am a member of. Perhaps I'm biased but I don't feel like my life is particularly worsened.

I've had the misfortune of bearing witness to paranoia fueled by both mental illness and drug abuse (and a combination of both). I've also worked with and for unapologetic assholes. There are things about this case and his communications that have me leaning toward the former.

This behaviour is absolutely incredible, probably the most tone-deaf response I've ever seen.

Good catch.

The vitriol was spelt LIIVECODING now it has been corrected to LIVECODING - wow, just wow.

It's like watching sourceforge implode all over again.

I wonder why they didn't fix the plus sign.

If she didn't provide her name and employer as part of registration, this isn't just vandalism -- it's stalking and harassment.

Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv

Is that legally irresponsible naming someone in full and directly implying they were responsible for a negative action?

Yes, LiveCoding.tv can be sued for libel.

Wow, that is insane. These guys are a YC backed company?!

If it is they need to pull funding immediately.

As far as I know, Y Combinator invests a lump sum and then contributes mentorship. Their only real recourse is to say, "Sorry, we've decided that you're not worth our time" and to terminate all work with the company.

Which, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they do.

> To maintain our community, if a founder behaves unethically during or after YC, we will revoke their YC founder status. This includes access to all Y Combinator spaces, software, lists and events. All founders in a company may be held responsible for the unethical actions of a single co-founder or a company employee, depending on the circumstances.

https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/

It is also interesting that only the second line has a plus sign at the end. I'll have to infer the meaning of that.

I have a mental image of an angry person mashing

CTRL+V, RETURN, RETURN,

CTRL+V, RETURN, RETURN, CTRL+V and then accidentally hitting + together with RETURN....

I can imagine that too. Rational people would of course use ctrl-y.

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