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
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    4277 months ago

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

    • Flying Squid
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      307 months ago

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

      • jawa21
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        67 months ago

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

        • Flying Squid
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          57 months ago

          I believe in you. If it isn’t the new 867-5309, hopefully it will at least be the next 6060-842.

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

      • Zier
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        97 months ago

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

    • CurlyWurlies4All
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      Do not forget me user4616250

      Look down, look down You’ll always be a slave Look down, look down You’re standing in your grave

      • @[email protected]
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        7 months ago

        "He knew that man was me. Without a second glance! That Micky Ds employee spotted me. The crime stoppers bounty is his chance!

        Why should I try to hide? Why should I go unkown. When I have come so far. And struggled for so long?

        If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, they have won!

        I am the ceo slayer that got away. They all are looking at me. How can I abandon them? How would they live. If I am not free?

        If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

        Who am I? Should not this wage slave benefit. Pretend I do not feel his agony. This innocent who can be set free.

        Who else should face their judgment. Who am I? Can I conceal myself for evermore? Pretend I am the man I was before? And hide my crime until I die.

        Be no more than an alibi? Must I lie?

        How can I ever face my fellow men? How can I ever face myself again? My fate belongs to capitlism, I know. I made that bargain long ago. I gave them hope when hope was gone. I gave them strength to journey on.

        [He appears in front of the court]

        Who am I? Who am I? I’m Luigi!

        [He unbuttons his shirt to reveal the scares of a botched surgery]

        And so UHC, you see it’s true. This man bears no more guilt than you! Who am I?

        user4616250!"

  • katy ✨
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    37 months ago

    i have no love for brian thompson or ceos but the canonisation of a well off wealthy rich kid from a family of republicans is a bit disturbing.

      • katy ✨
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        17 months ago

        you got me; because i don’t like swooning over rich privileged people i’m defending ceos… /rolleyes

          • katy ✨
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            17 months ago

            comparing luigi to the civil rights movement and black civil rights leaders is wild… and grossly offensive.

            • @[email protected]
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              37 months ago

              The fact that OP took time to explain everything to you, and you choose to focus on such nonsense instead of seeing the whole picture presented to you shows you have no intention of learning or growing.

            • @[email protected]
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              people being offended by comparisons is something that puzzles me every time i see it.

              One common trait between two things is enough to make an analogy. The differences between the objects being compared doesnt hinder the argument as it is based on the similarities alone.

              • katy ✨
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                17 months ago

                the problem is more comparing a privileged rich white kid to black civil rights leaders

                • @[email protected]
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                  57 months ago

                  Pointing that A is like B regarding the aspect X is often treated as a “comparison” between A and B, but it doesnt imply that A is as great, as important, or as bad as B. It doesnt imply that A is like B in any way other than in the aspect X.

                  Why not focus on the point that is being made instead of freaking out over the angles from which the analogy breaks down. Every analogy breaks down from some angle.

          • Gormadt
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            27 months ago

            Very well said, I hope you don’t catch a ban for this comment.

    • @[email protected]
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      177 months ago

      He’s closer to you in class and status than Brian Thompson ever was. How fine a comb do you want to use to divide us? Where’s the line?

      • katy ✨
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        17 months ago

        what does this have to do with dividing us? i mean they’re both not close to me. they’re both wealthy people from well off families. i think instead of donating a bunch of money to him, people should start donating to people facing vast sums of medical debt.

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          You would be hard pressed to spend your money better than Luigi in regards to reducing medical debt. Anthem got scared and walked back rationing anesthesia during surgeries.

        • @[email protected]
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          37 months ago

          People do - through tax but the rich divert the funds through policy using laws that they’ve shaped to benefit themselves rather than the nation.

          Honestly, if anyone has a chance of murdering the rich and setting a precedent of self defence over social murder, it’s another rich who can afford an excellent lawyer to see out the lengthy court case.

        • @[email protected]
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          87 months ago

          Instead of people paying for ridiculous amount of medical debt due to inflated amount of medical bill due insurance companies. Govt can pay for their own people medical coverage who are paying tax for them to run the govt.

          • katy ✨
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            17 months ago

            sure but that’s not likely to happen with republicans in government.

            • @[email protected]
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              77 months ago

              If i have to say both are similar. They work for the ultra rich. They both don’t care about common people, you and I both. That’s why Luigi mangione did what he had to do. Making the rich know their place. Whether he is rich or not doesn’t matter. We needed to send the message across.

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      He’s a good example of one can be a class traitor in a good way!

      Why not idolize the folks crossing over to the right side of history?

    • @[email protected]
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      557 months ago

      “Trickle down economics only occurs when the wealthy bleed.”

      Similar, and appropriate. The working class will only benefit once the wealthy are no longer wealthy.

  • Destide
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    457 months ago

    Stack being weird and toxic I’m shocked, shocked I tell you

  • @[email protected]
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    I cross posted this to Hacker News (which is very pro-CEO and big corpo) and it’s now rank 1 on the front page, lmao. People really support this guy

    (And it’s funny because in the comments, people are seething “Nooooo he’s not popular, look at these polls that show he has 13% approval!!”)

    (Not sharing link to avoid brigade)

    • @[email protected]
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      267 months ago

      Even if the 13% number were accurate - that’s a pretty damning number. 13% of people supporting someone for gunning down a CEO in cold blood is terrifying to CEOs.

      That’s not 13% hating them. That’s 13% of people celebrating someone for killing them. No lawsuits. No trials. Just gunning them down in the streets. Things have gotten really bad when you have that much of the population actively supporting your murder.

      • @[email protected]
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        That 13% would also be people who would openly admit to supporting his actions. There are a lot of people who condemn his actions publicly but in their own minds…?

      • @[email protected]
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        227 months ago

        If billionaires were protected as we protect children in schools, we’d literally run out billionaires in a month.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        This is the only solution to modern world problems. Imagine how many problems we would solve right away if we started gunning down powerful people, CEOs, politicians.

    • @[email protected]
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      1137 months ago

      The submission has been clearly penalized by hn moderators: Posted 3h ago, upvoted >600 times with almost 500 comments, ranking 23rd on the front page. Ranking first currently is a submission with 80 upvotes, posted 1h ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      187 months ago

      Wait, seriously? WTF is it named hacker news? Hackers are the least corporate people out there…

      • @[email protected]
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        Most American hackers need a security clearance to work, you won’t find them supporting Saint Luigi online

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          Yuppies are weird because it was originally just a way to keep them in the news (“new movement! new group! news at 11!”) and be ridiculous. They got the DoD to sign a contract about exactly how high they were permitted to levitate the Pentagon.

          And then it had it’s own Eternal September moment. But everything seems to.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      What kind of world have we come into where Hacker News is a pro corporation website?

      Hackers used to be the antithesis of big corporations and capitalist overreach.

    • @[email protected]
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      147 months ago

      Lmao it has 3x as many votes as anything else on HN but the moderated pushed it all the way down to page 3 (position 60-something when I just checked).

  • Dr. Moose
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    I had 40k points on SO though I no longer contribute. Stackexchange is basically dead because it’s a for-profit with very poor direction and LLMs basically made the entire thing obsolete relative to the monetary growths it needs to be sustainable. Understandably they can’t attract any attention like this as they’re 🤏 from going under.

    I feel a bit sad for stackexchange but they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. I think stackexchange has their days numbered tho so this is realy not all that relevant. Give them a year or two tops

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      It’s sad because Stack Exchange came out because Experts Exchange sucked. And now they also suck.

      In the day of AI, will we ever have a new alternative?

      • Dr. Moose
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        27 months ago

        Yeah I doubt it tbh. I loved my time with stackoverflow and it landed me jobs and friends but I’m quite bullish when it comes IT and AI. It’s not replacing devs yet but definitely replacing q&a, debugging tools, code reviews etc already/soon.

        I hope we’ll have some open social coding experience like SO but trends seem to point towards more private stuff like coaching, bookcamps, shitty discord servers etc. as that’s the only thing that can be funded sustainably.

      • @[email protected]
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        47 months ago

        How will AI learn without human posted questions and answers. Docs for most software are abysmal. In a few years, people dependent on AI to code will be in real trouble with anything new.

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        In the day of AI, will we ever have a new alternative?

        perhaps we’ll see a resurgence of value added platforms that ensure it’s all human generated information. not an easy problem but… if there’s demand

  • @[email protected]
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    87 months ago

    thanks for this revelation. I’m going to look down the rabbit hole for myself. what a story if his account is true.

  • @[email protected]
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    1347 months ago

    On Stack Exchange, all of the contributions on the site are contributed under a license maintained by a third party called Creative Commons […] the work remains properly attributed.

    This is the main issue IMO

    • DUMBASS
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      427 months ago

      No, they’re terrified of us now, they know we tasted blood and are hungry for more.

      • Ænima
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        117 months ago

        I know I am. I’m so sick of this system they’ve created and perpetuated for decades/centuries. I just want to live my fucking life without worrying about basic needs, or how someone with most can take even more from those who have little. Americans have more guns per capita than almost anywhere else. Those are guns in the hands of the people, not mercs or armies or private security. They should be afraid of us. They should be checking their car’s undercarriage daily before getting in. They should vary their routes daily to avoid patterns. They should see every person on the street as a potential assassin. Only THEN, will anything about these parasites’ attitudes change.

        Unfortunately, so many with the skills to engage in revolution are aligned with the interests of these corporate leeches, and thus are fighting the masses, instead of standing with them. They wanted a Civil War #2, it’s time to kick up, not down!

        • sunzu2
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          Most gun owners are biggest bootlickers out there… They didn’t get weapons to fight corporate tyranny, they got them to shoot poor people they don’t like

          • @[email protected]
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            27 months ago

            Actually, they got them to shoot gun-wielding home invaders who threaten (if not attempt to murder) their family members.

    • @[email protected]
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      117 months ago

      Fucking terrified. I’ve never seen corpos circle their wagons like this before. It’s hilarious.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      That’s not what the article is about. Stack Overflow has kept content that Luigi created up, but removed his username, in violation of Creative Commons. Edited the post to make that more clear.

        • Queen HawlSera
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          27 months ago

          Indeed, I wonder if we’ll start seeing reforms before or after a copycat strikes.

          • @[email protected]
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            37 months ago

            I doubt before. They’re still hoping they can erase or villainize him. I expect the news media will ignore his trial in favor of whatever antics Trump or Musk are up to, and we won’t hear much about him until there’s a guilty verdict they can parade before the masses in order to dissuade them from copying him. If he does get mentioned, they’ll be trying to frame him in as negative a light as possible and downplay his motives. I also expect the big social media will censor discussion under the guise of not promoting violence, or simply shadow ban any mention of him.

            • @[email protected]
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              17 months ago

              This is the equivalent of a bank robber standing in a vault, filling his bag full of jewels. One of the hostages yelling “You can’t do this, it’s illegal.” Some other guy yells “…and yet…” minutes before police sirens can be heard outside.

              I look forward to Mangiine catching wind of this, which is basically theft, and adding it to the laundry list of things to be tried in court.

  • @[email protected]
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    47 months ago

    Lol @ the “Ross Ulbrecht requested that we keep his username” bullshit.

    Oh ok, guys, nevermind. It’s not a big deal because the criminal requested that we keep their username…

  • @[email protected]
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    67 months ago

    Here’s a fun fact I just recently came across. In the medieval times when the church wanted to remove a heretic, someone who was speaking out in opposition to church doctrine, they would burn those people at the stake. The reason they would do this was not because this was a common practice to burn people at the stake but in order to prevent relics of the heretics from being collected and giving their followers something to rally around.

    I think Luigi’s Stack Overflow history is a relic of his existence and something people could rally around and the powerful don’t want that to exist.