I got banned from Meta.d, and I haven't even posted there in months...

mott555 2015-09-11 20:48:14 UTC #1

The reason listed is that I'm not welcome there anymore. I haven't even posted there in months, just lurked, and I thought I was usually one of the more polite ones over there.

loopback0 (This user is suspended) 2015-09-11 20:49:03 UTC #2

Ragebanned by association.

Kuro (Might be: @abarker, @boomzilla, @eviltrout, @PJH, @Sam or @sloosecannon) 2015-09-11 20:49:18 UTC #3

Filed Under: Most of us have been there

boomzilla (Been microaggressed by reading over) 2015-09-11 20:50:25 UTC #4

Kuro (Might be: @abarker, @boomzilla, @eviltrout, @PJH, @Sam or @sloosecannon) 2015-09-11 20:51:47 UTC #5

Is that the new "One of us One of us"-post?

Filed Under: I'd accept it

Maciejasjmj (' OR 1=1; DROP TABLE TDWTF; --) 2015-09-11 20:51:58 UTC #6

I take it you've just woken up, or something? Have fun digging through the DiscoGate backlog...

locallunatic 2015-09-11 20:52:17 UTC #7

Most of us were polite over there, but due to the vitriol here it was group banning time apparently.

mott555 2015-09-11 20:52:24 UTC #8

I've been recovering from wisdom tooth extraction... just now catching up on the various forums I'm a member of.

tar (⛨ I ͚̝̏ͮ̅̾l̮̲͛ͥ͋̍͑̐o̯̞̰̯̅̈̿ͅv̜͈͈͐̍̂͑e̦̜̼̫͚͛̈́ U̥̤̼͈͔̖̠̲͊ͨͭͤ̊ͥ̚Ň͓͓̌̾̂̔̅̿ͬͭI̳̮̺̞̮̭̙͒̇̽C̫̩͙͎̦̯͐ͯ̎̀̊̉̒ͅO̺̝̰̰̔ͩͪ̍ͩ̒D̪̼̝̙͖͈̱̂ͭ̊̔E̟͐̃ͦ͌͊ͅ) 2015-09-11 20:52:54 UTC #9

Is it just me, or is banning a large group of people based merely on their association, almost the perfect way to appear like a raging dickwolf?

boomzilla (Been microaggressed by reading over) 2015-09-11 20:53:20 UTC #10

I'm not sure what a raging dickwolf is, but it sounds about right.

Maciejasjmj (' OR 1=1; DROP TABLE TDWTF; --) 2015-09-11 20:53:51 UTC #11

It is.

It is also Jeff we're talking about, so... what was your point again?

MathNerdCNU (MathNerdCNU) 2015-09-11 20:53:58 UTC #12

A really bad episode of Law and Order?

locallunatic 2015-09-11 20:54:07 UTC #13

Basically the short of it is (per my understanding) our bugs rarely were important things for the paying customers and we were a huge drag on team morale, thus getting rid of us was done to keep them doing things that could make money.

Polygeekery (A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me.) 2015-09-11 20:55:07 UTC #14

Me either. I am however fairly sure I don't want that search in my browser history.

ben_lubar (the Adequately Skilled) 2015-09-11 20:55:33 UTC #15

How long until someone writes a fan fiction of this?

tar (⛨ I ͚̝̏ͮ̅̾l̮̲͛ͥ͋̍͑̐o̯̞̰̯̅̈̿ͅv̜͈͈͐̍̂͑e̦̜̼̫͚͛̈́ U̥̤̼͈͔̖̠̲͊ͨͭͤ̊ͥ̚Ň͓͓̌̾̂̔̅̿ͬͭI̳̮̺̞̮̭̙͒̇̽C̫̩͙͎̦̯͐ͯ̎̀̊̉̒ͅO̺̝̰̰̔ͩͪ̍ͩ̒D̪̼̝̙͖͈̱̂ͭ̊̔E̟͐̃ͦ͌͊ͅ) 2015-09-11 21:07:38 UTC #16

Discomocracy (n): everyone has the freedom to agree with Jeff Atwood, and bask in the glory of his correctness.

blakeyrat (B l a k e y r a t) 2015-09-11 21:14:45 UTC #17

Where does this understanding come from?

Maciejasjmj (' OR 1=1; DROP TABLE TDWTF; --) 2015-09-11 21:20:59 UTC #18

Because the other option is "Jeff Atwood is a dangerously crazy person", and we like not to exercise the possibility that a crazy person had full access to our backend for over a year.

Filed under: i want to believe, jeff in my backend is a scary idea

loopback0 (This user is suspended) 2015-09-11 21:22:38 UTC #19

locallunatic 2015-09-11 21:24:36 UTC #20

From Alex talking about how we were not the target market for Discourse (your thread asking about who was then also included in this).

Combined with the reactions between the disco devs and many people here (reacting to eachother). Remember that @Sam self banned from here previously due to how he was treated. Employee morale changes their output. In addition much time has been spent on issues that we reported that much of their team said were rare issues or due to how we were trying to break things.

It's possible that my understanding is wrong, but I can't exactly ask them.