The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.

Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.

When the author asked about this:

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    3421·
    1 day ago

    user4616250 will now be a famous meme. “How do we fix healthcare? We call user4616250.”

    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      401·
      1 day ago

      Anytime a CEO does something questionable; “/ping user4616250”

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      1 day ago

      A musician needs to write a catchy tune to put the name to so people will remember the numbers.

      • Zier@fedia.io
        8·
        1 day ago

        “calling user 461-62-50, he’s our dude, what he does is nifty!” :)

      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        It will likely take months, but I’m gonna try. I might give up before it is done, though.

            • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              1 day ago

              Luigi, Luigi, who can I turn to?
              You give me something I can hold onto!
              Things can’t stay the way that they were before
              It’s time to put some villains up on the wall!

              Luigi I got your number!
              I think it’s hero time!
              Luigi don’t change your number!

              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!

              Luigi Luigi you’re the guy for me
              Oh, you don’t know me but you make me so happy. I tried to free you but I lost my nerve. I said “nullification” but I got censored

              Luigi I got your number. I think it’s hero time. Luigi don’t change your number

              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!
              Four six one six two five oh!

              I got it (I got it) I got it
              Put those assholes on the wall!
              I got it (I got it) I got it
              For the good of, for the good of us all!

              Luigi, Luigi who can we turn to
              (Four six one six two five oh)
              To know our pain, we can always turn to you. (Four six one six two five oh)

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          Nice and catchy, but it needs to be catchy with more digits. Tommy “Tutone” Heath is still alive. I’m just saying.