Way back when in the dawn of time, I publicly reported a bug to a developer, in the appropriate forum (i.e. the one where they asked for bug reports).
One of my bosses took me aside, and explained that while what I did wasn’t wrong, and I wasn’t in trouble for it, as a matter of professional courtesy I should send future bug reports privately.
We could use a little more of that.
RickH
2716
The idea of issuing a death threat, even privately, is pretty alien to me. If you’re really gonna kill them, warning them is a bad idea. If you are trying to motivate or intimidate, it’s a bad method that will always make you look crazy. Zero upside, yet it seems to happen often.
And Twitter, is there anyone whose life it has made better? It’s a primariliy destructive personal and cultural force as far as I can see. I’d love to see a list of just how many people have been fired or otherwise had their incomes terminated as a result of stupid Twitter behavior. Got to be in at least the triple digits by now.
I’m 100% certain that, as a species, we’ve broken the 1000 mark with this. ;-)
I will say that I think Twitter has improved my life. My group of friends spent an inordinate amount of time in undergrad pretending to be intelligent and witty with each other, and Twitter has allowed us to continue this despite geographical separation, in a way that plain-old email is somewhat too cumbersome for (140 characters just about perfectly matches the limit of our creativity). Most of us have private accounts, though, and those of us that don’t probably should.
I’m a happy private account holder; I’m followed by about 100 friends and acquaintances, and myself follow about 600 accounts (of both friends and public figures/companies I want to keep up with, like Pro Starcraft players and NaNoWriMo). It’s kept private and the list of my followers well-pruned because I am positive my views as expressed there would not be appreciated by my family, coworkers, or significant portions of the world at various times.
I do have a public account that I interact with companies through and to have something show up when companies google my name.
Busbecq
2719
You really made that bum check his privilege!!
Busbecq
2720
Who are you following? There are tons of literary grade novelists, actual journalists, and real wits on Twitter and they are very prolific. There is a lot of high culture there.
Indie game Twitter fight!
https://twitter.com/EGSDarknuke/with_replies
Regarding Code Avarice:
The day finally came! Code Avarice finally imploded off their own narcissism. I’d say you’ll be missed, but you really won’t. #sorrynotsorry
lmao he’s wonderful? I could write a blog post, with picture proof, about how awful a person he is.
In the comments of the Code Avarice announcement:
I had the “pleasure” of being acquainted with Mike and Travis during a Groupees bundle we shared last year in May. They were harassing customers in chat and I stepped in to tell them to stop. After Mike and Travis retargeted their harassment at me, Mike and I proceeded to chat in private messages. I told him “you need to learn to act a bit more professional” after a short discussion about how he can’t treat his customers that way. He said “You can’t teach a lesson to God.”
After a little bit of talk like this (I remained civil and he kept saying things like this. I have the entire transcript saved btw.), Mike proceeded to get his followers and famous YouTubers to go and attack our Desura page, putting in 1/10’s for reviews over and over. He also got people to talk shit on Twitter about our game, despite them not playing it at all. It was petty and pointless and all because I defended customers he was harassing.
I’ve followed his progress closely and silently ever since then. I documented several of his outbursts and waited for him to implode. That day finally came.
Mike is not a good person. He got what he deserved and anyone feeling sorry for him really shouldn’t. Maybe one day he’ll become a halfway decent human being, but it won’t be in the game industry. He’s done here, as seen from this terrible apology. “Shitty corporations” really?! You haven’t learned ANYTHING Mike.
This is the co-creater of Guncraft, by the way.
Again, if you don’t something nice to say…
Indie Game Twitter Fight sounds like an indie game.
10/10 just for “you can’t teach a lesson to God.”
If that’s a real quote, that is simply outstanding.
It would simultaneously be the best and worst game ever.
JoshV
2725
Yeah, while I agree with and understand Mr. Guncraft guy, I just don’t really see a need do anything other than privately celebrate. I guess this goes again to the twitter generation thinking that twitter is some sort of private place where it’s A-okay to just spit out your opinions and thoughts to everyone.
If it actually used Twitter for parts of the content (or communucation) it could would be technically kinda cool, a bit like how many botnets and whatnot use Twitter for C&C.
RickH
2727
Nobody. All I ever hear about Twitter is what gets reported outeide of Twitter. Some, like the comedians quoted on Splitsider, are indeed clever. Others, like the newscaster who decided to rank on Senator Rand Paul’s opinion of Ebola stuff by asking when he became a doctor (answer: about 20 years ago), are just embarassments for people who should know better but can’t stop acting out for the crowd.
*Sees fellow indie dev and private enemy’s career implode after a public rant on Twitter…decides to celebrate with public rant on Twitter. Classy.
-Todd
He doesn’t understand how bad crowing over the other person’s mistake makes him look.
I actually liked hearing that Maulbeck has a reputation for this stuff. I’m a softie and I hate the idea of someone ruining their life for a single mistake in social media. Knowing that he’s been doing this for a while, and it was just a matter of time, removes all sympathy I had for him. So that helps.
Well I don’t have any sympathy for Maulbeck either, but the co-creator of Guncraft just looks slimy. Talking about how he secretly stalked Maulbeck for years waiting for his eventual downfall is just kind of creepy. Even if Maulbeck was an asshole.
-Todd
Menzo
2732
So first this dumbass threatens to kill Gabe Newell on Twitter, then he leaves this gem. So imagine he’s sitting in the HR office at EA or wherever and they pull this up. How lucky they are to be his next employer!
He may have learned one lesson, but he still has some classes to attend.
Mr_Zero
2733
Well secret stalking is a lot more effective than public stalking
