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The tale of Michael Church resonates throughout the entire valley. It certainly isn't limited to Google. I wish a Googler on his way out would leak the threads,

The tale of Michael Church resonates throughout the entire valley. It certainly isn't limited to Google. I wish a Googler on his way out would leak the threads, honestly; I want to see if they live up to the tales. Context, for the uninitiated (grab a beer before searching): "site:news.ycombinator.com michaelochurch google"

anatoly 14y ago
Not limited to Google, not by a long shot. "Speaking personally, on every day that I'm blocked, I add college traditions that never existed, transpose digits of population figures or world records, and create articles on bullshit "folklore" that is often absurd; this is what Wikipedia will have to put up with if I am to be blocked from it. About 1 in 3 of my vandalisms survives for a year, and several have been reproduced on other articles." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mike_Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mike_Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Mike_Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_so... etc. It's a gift that keeps on giving.
- michaelochurch 14y ago
  You do realize that (a) most of those "sockpuppet" accounts are nonexistent (0 contributions) and (b) User:Isomorphic was kicked out of school for being caught drunk with his 15-year-old girlfriend, right? If not, then you don't know what you're talking about.
  - jrockway 14y ago
    I've learned quite a bit about the michaelochurch argument technique from this thread: Step 1: Make up stories about your enemy that nobody on the forum can verify. (Be it that your manager is a terrorist or that the Wikipedia admin who banned you is a child rapist.) Step 2: ??? Step 3: Post again with an even more grandiose tale. Why are you wasting your time on HN when you could be writing screenplays instead?
    - michaelochurch 14y ago
      I have no idea whether "User: Isomorphic" was a child rapist. He got in trouble for her being intoxicated, and for supplying alcohol to a minor, and so there were a lot of suspicions, but I don't know what was proven and, quite honestly, I don't want to even think about that. I prefer not to think about the sorts of people who do that stuff. The "terrorist" thing is getting taken way out of its original context. I was not comparing Google's problem executives to terrorists. I was saying that they enjoy destruction and take inspiration from it. I could have replaced "terrorist attacks" with "gruesome accidents". They're saboteurs, not terrorists.

anatoly 14y ago

Not limited to Google, not by a long shot. "Speaking personally, on every day that I'm blocked, I add college traditions that never existed, transpose digits of population figures or world records, and create articles on bullshit "folklore" that is often absurd; this is what Wikipedia will have to put up with if I am to be blocked from it. About 1 in 3 of my vandalisms survives for a year, and several have been reproduced on other articles." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mike_Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mike_Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Mike_Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_so... etc. It's a gift that keeps on giving.

michaelochurch 14y ago
You do realize that (a) most of those "sockpuppet" accounts are nonexistent (0 contributions) and (b) User:Isomorphic was kicked out of school for being caught drunk with his 15-year-old girlfriend, right? If not, then you don't know what you're talking about.
- jrockway 14y ago
  I've learned quite a bit about the michaelochurch argument technique from this thread: Step 1: Make up stories about your enemy that nobody on the forum can verify. (Be it that your manager is a terrorist or that the Wikipedia admin who banned you is a child rapist.) Step 2: ??? Step 3: Post again with an even more grandiose tale. Why are you wasting your time on HN when you could be writing screenplays instead?
  - michaelochurch 14y ago
    I have no idea whether "User: Isomorphic" was a child rapist. He got in trouble for her being intoxicated, and for supplying alcohol to a minor, and so there were a lot of suspicions, but I don't know what was proven and, quite honestly, I don't want to even think about that. I prefer not to think about the sorts of people who do that stuff. The "terrorist" thing is getting taken way out of its original context. I was not comparing Google's problem executives to terrorists. I was saying that they enjoy destruction and take inspiration from it. I could have replaced "terrorist attacks" with "gruesome accidents". They're saboteurs, not terrorists.