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Comment by drakonka | Hacker News Reader

Well, it looks like my profile is back again...again with accusations of spam...

https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

And, for those still watching the drama, they've actually updated your profile again, so the first "banned" line now reads

    ANNED FROM LIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING
    BANNED FROM LIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING+
    BANNED FROM LIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING

The bizarre "+" is still there, but you've lost a "B" in "BANNED", so it looks like another by-hand update of your profile.

Wow. This could be another user re-creating the account to create drama, though. Is the rest of the profile info (favorite line of code, etc.) the same?

I wouldn't call it impossible, but this seems like such a deliberately bad move that I can't even believe it was done by livecoding.tv

No, the rest of the profile info is totally different. I agree, this is probably some troll recreating the account.

Wow

It looks like they _removed_ my username and profile, then _recreated_ it just for the sole purpose of this. This is pretty amazing.

This is the weirdest sequence of events I've ever seen from a company. At this point, from the point of view from someone that's not involved in this, it's more intriguing than it is frustrating.

Someone else pointed out elsewhere that maybe it was just a troll recreating the profile and not Livecoding themselves. I suppose that's possible, too.

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