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Can you change the gender on your account? Switch it over to male and set up a couple dozen pseudonyms to throw off their count. If Livecoding has aligned thei

by bnj 11y ago

Can you change the gender on your account? Switch it over to male and set up a couple dozen pseudonyms to throw off their count. If Livecoding has aligned their interests with the gender ratio of their users to the extent that they're treating you like this, makes sense to speak back to them on their own terms. IMHO.

drakonka 11y ago
Unfortunately at this point that redirect back to home on login that I discovered after changing my password is still there, so I doubt I can change any part of my account details now; it's just going to sit there until they decide to actually delete it (if ever). But I did manage to change the profile description and stream title to make it clear that I am waiting for the account to be deleted before the redirect was put in place. I didn't actually connect their shadiness about deleting my account with gender and am honestly not convinced that this is it. Sure, they were kind of pushy about promoting the site to women, but there is actually no gender identification on my profile other than my profile picture. I can't remember if gender was specified somewhere in my account settings but then not publicly displayed at this point.
- kuschku 11y ago
  Suggestion: Write a Cease and Desist letter to Livecoding.tv (Livecoding Ltd) 20-22 Wenlock Road London, N1 7GU England That should get them to stop. A letter such as this costs less than a Euro, and means they have no excuse not to act on it. Otherwise you can try sending them a fax, that usually also has better chances at success with businesses. ---------------- I kinda want to move my twitch streams over to livecoding just to be able to get into this deletion mess and send lawyers after them now...
  - gaius 11y ago
    That's odd, their domain name suggests they are based in the small island nation of Tuvalu.
    - brobinson 11y ago
      By that logic, Libya probably has the most active startup scene of any country right now.
      - gaius 11y ago
        You do know that's what the top level domains were actually for, right?
        brobinson 11y ago
        I don't disagree! Most countries' registries don't have requirements around geographical presence, so here we are.
    - kuschku 11y ago
      There are more oddities like that: The government of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany uses for most official websites the domain .sh, which actually belongs to Saint Helena. At this point almost all domains on .sh actually belong to companies or governmental entities in Schleswig-Holstein, the remaining domains mostly belong to geeks using it due to the similarity to the file ending .sh for shell files. Examples: - http://www.nah.sh/ http://www.nah.sh/ (Official transit agency) - http://www.studentenwerk.sh/ http://www.studentenwerk.sh/ (Official Student Service Agency, operates dormitories, etc) - https://www.wir-bewegen.sh/ https://www.wir-bewegen.sh/ (Kickstarter for public projects, operated by the government; one example is "a 3D model of the city for blind people as map, publicly accessible next to the train station") Many more such cases exist all around the world, it is... weird.
      - Nullabillity 11y ago
        Also: .nu is owned by Niue, but is mostly used by Swedish companies (nu is swedish for now). It was even taken over by IIS/.SE in 2013.
        mithras 11y ago
  - DanBC 11y ago
    Wait what, they're in the UK? This is clearly data protection stuff. I've taken screen shots and poked the information commissioner.
DrMJG_HN 11y ago
We got a lot of complaints from women that we are not doing much to encourage women on Livecoding.tv. There would be too many guys and we would target the product too much to men even in our descriptions by using "his", "guy", etc. To counter the complaint, we launched a female streamer program where we specifically encourage female engineers to stream.We use it as a way of inspiring females to stream to balance the scale. To be frank we have many awesome female streamers and you can ask them how far we go to make sure they feel comfortable on Livecoding.tv: https://www.livecoding.tv/awakekat/ https://www.livecoding.tv/awakekat/

by bnj 11y ago

drakonka 11y ago

Unfortunately at this point that redirect back to home on login that I discovered after changing my password is still there, so I doubt I can change any part of my account details now; it's just going to sit there until they decide to actually delete it (if ever). But I did manage to change the profile description and stream title to make it clear that I am waiting for the account to be deleted before the redirect was put in place. I didn't actually connect their shadiness about deleting my account with gender and am honestly not convinced that this is it. Sure, they were kind of pushy about promoting the site to women, but there is actually no gender identification on my profile other than my profile picture. I can't remember if gender was specified somewhere in my account settings but then not publicly displayed at this point.

kuschku 11y ago
Suggestion: Write a Cease and Desist letter to Livecoding.tv (Livecoding Ltd) 20-22 Wenlock Road London, N1 7GU England That should get them to stop. A letter such as this costs less than a Euro, and means they have no excuse not to act on it. Otherwise you can try sending them a fax, that usually also has better chances at success with businesses. ---------------- I kinda want to move my twitch streams over to livecoding just to be able to get into this deletion mess and send lawyers after them now...
- gaius 11y ago
  That's odd, their domain name suggests they are based in the small island nation of Tuvalu.
  - brobinson 11y ago
    By that logic, Libya probably has the most active startup scene of any country right now.
    - gaius 11y ago
      You do know that's what the top level domains were actually for, right?
      - brobinson 11y ago
        I don't disagree! Most countries' registries don't have requirements around geographical presence, so here we are.
  - kuschku 11y ago
    There are more oddities like that: The government of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany uses for most official websites the domain .sh, which actually belongs to Saint Helena. At this point almost all domains on .sh actually belong to companies or governmental entities in Schleswig-Holstein, the remaining domains mostly belong to geeks using it due to the similarity to the file ending .sh for shell files. Examples: - http://www.nah.sh/ http://www.nah.sh/ (Official transit agency) - http://www.studentenwerk.sh/ http://www.studentenwerk.sh/ (Official Student Service Agency, operates dormitories, etc) - https://www.wir-bewegen.sh/ https://www.wir-bewegen.sh/ (Kickstarter for public projects, operated by the government; one example is "a 3D model of the city for blind people as map, publicly accessible next to the train station") Many more such cases exist all around the world, it is... weird.
    - Nullabillity 11y ago
      Also: .nu is owned by Niue, but is mostly used by Swedish companies (nu is swedish for now). It was even taken over by IIS/.SE in 2013.
      - mithras 11y ago
- DanBC 11y ago
  Wait what, they're in the UK? This is clearly data protection stuff. I've taken screen shots and poked the information commissioner.

DrMJG_HN 11y ago

We got a lot of complaints from women that we are not doing much to encourage women on Livecoding.tv. There would be too many guys and we would target the product too much to men even in our descriptions by using "his", "guy", etc. To counter the complaint, we launched a female streamer program where we specifically encourage female engineers to stream.We use it as a way of inspiring females to stream to balance the scale. To be frank we have many awesome female streamers and you can ask them how far we go to make sure they feel comfortable on Livecoding.tv: https://www.livecoding.tv/awakekat/ https://www.livecoding.tv/awakekat/