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Absolutely INCREDIBLE sock puppeting by PENSIVE in this Quora thread

https://www.quora.com/Im-19-and-the-Michael-O-Church-banning...
ponyboy curtis
  12/05/20
I ran it through my MOC test and it came back as only 2.7% l...
cream magical death wish
  12/05/20
You have a MOC test?
ponyboy curtis
  12/05/20
Related Questions What is Michael O. Church like in person?...
faglord
  12/05/20
A lot of those questions were thrown up there to make him lo...
cream magical death wish
  12/05/20
Would you happen to know if pensive is uncircumcised?
faglord
  12/05/20
...
vigorous crusty foreskin
  12/05/20
No. Are you a P=J-er?
cream magical death wish
  12/05/20
...
ponyboy curtis
  12/05/20
...
Curious adulterous parlor doctorate
  12/05/20
i can't spot the sockpuppeting at all. genius
Curious adulterous parlor doctorate
  12/05/20
The hilarious thing is that most of it's not sock puppeting....
cream magical death wish
  12/05/20
what exactly is his "arc" from what i read on h...
Bearded Passionate Psychic Fanboi
  12/05/20
(pensive starting a debate with himself)
Curious adulterous parlor doctorate
  12/05/20
hi pensive!
cream magical death wish
  12/05/20
Unreal. 75% of this thread is Pensive
ponyboy curtis
  12/05/20
Another classic pensive tell is made-up software that he cla...
Sticky Weed Whacker Library
  12/12/20
He basically wrote a lot of internet that, as you said, was ...
cream magical death wish
  12/05/20
Lol now this is definitely pensive
vigorous crusty foreskin
  12/05/20
No, and I'm not sure why you think that when what I'm saying...
cream magical death wish
  12/05/20
Ljl tell us more about the blacklist. AFAICT you "black...
Curious adulterous parlor doctorate
  12/05/20
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Trip Chest-beating Locale
  12/05/20
...
ponyboy curtis
  12/05/20
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ponyboy curtis
  12/05/20


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Date: December 5th, 2020 6:54 PM
Author: ponyboy curtis

https://www.quora.com/Im-19-and-the-Michael-O-Church-banning-scandal-has-scared-me-away-from-tech-What-industries-should-I-consider-instead

Ljl the first guy to respond just happens to "know him"

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41491975)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 6:57 PM
Author: cream magical death wish

I ran it through my MOC test and it came back as only 2.7% likely to be him.



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41491996)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 8:48 PM
Author: ponyboy curtis

You have a MOC test?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492625)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 6:55 PM
Author: faglord

Related Questions

What is Michael O. Church like in person?

Why was Michael O. Church targeted by Silicon Valley?

Why is Michael O. Church well known? What makes him so interesting?

Where has Michael O. Church gone?

Why doesn't Michael O. Church solve some of the problems he has seen in the tech industry? Why doesn't he step up and try to solve at least one of these problems?

Is Michael O. Church a genius?

Why is Michael O. Church well-known at Google?

Why did Michael O. Church leave Jane Street?

What are the best blog posts of Michael O. Church?

What strategic gain does Y Combinator get by attacking Michael O. Church?

Why was Michael O. Church banned from Hacker News?

Why didn't Google put Michael O. Church on a machine learning research project?

How has Michael O. Church's activism affected his career?

How do Quorans feel about the banning of Michael O. Church?

Why was Michael O. Church banned from Quora?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41491978)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 6:58 PM
Author: cream magical death wish

A lot of those questions were thrown up there to make him look bad.

People on Quora were obsessed with him in 2015 because he reverse engineered their "people rank" had got a ridiculous percentage of people to read his contribs. He seems to have faded into irrelevance since he got banned.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492006)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 6:59 PM
Author: faglord

Would you happen to know if pensive is uncircumcised?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492010)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:02 PM
Author: vigorous crusty foreskin



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492020)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:05 PM
Author: cream magical death wish

No. Are you a P=J-er?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492034)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 8:43 PM
Author: ponyboy curtis



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492604)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:00 PM
Author: Curious adulterous parlor doctorate



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492013)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:06 PM
Author: Curious adulterous parlor doctorate

i can't spot the sockpuppeting at all. genius

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492043)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:08 PM
Author: cream magical death wish

The hilarious thing is that most of it's not sock puppeting.

I used to follow his arc in the 2010s and had my friend code up a text analyzer. I only found 3 accounts on Quora that were him and the other 2 had <10 posts.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492052)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:10 PM
Author: Bearded Passionate Psychic Fanboi

what exactly is his "arc"

from what i read on his blog the main points were "most people suck at programming" and "VC funding comes with perverse incentives to go boom or bust" both pretty uncontroversial statements

then at some point he lost his marbles and claimed people were following him irl or something?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492067)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:11 PM
Author: Curious adulterous parlor doctorate

(pensive starting a debate with himself)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492072)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:18 PM
Author: cream magical death wish

hi pensive!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492113)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 8:46 PM
Author: ponyboy curtis

Unreal. 75% of this thread is Pensive

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492616)



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Date: December 12th, 2020 12:16 AM
Author: Sticky Weed Whacker Library

Another classic pensive tell is made-up software that he claims matches pumo identities, and so on.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41531317)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:18 PM
Author: cream magical death wish

He basically wrote a lot of internet that, as you said, was pretty uncontroversial but caused a lot of high-placed people to get butthurt, which led to him being banned from Hacker News and Quora, which wouldn't be a big deal in any other industry, but because tech is full of cucks, it blacklisted him.

I don't know that he was "followed IRL" but that kind of shit does happen to people for lesser offenses than his.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492107)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:19 PM
Author: vigorous crusty foreskin

Lol now this is definitely pensive

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492120)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:22 PM
Author: cream magical death wish

No, and I'm not sure why you think that when what I'm saying is objectively true. He was banned from HN and Quora for making people butthurt. Whether he was followed IRL, I can't really say. It actually seems unlikely unless he spent a lot of time in San Francisco.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492148)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:35 PM
Author: Curious adulterous parlor doctorate

Ljl tell us more about the blacklist. AFAICT you "blacklisted" yourself by spamming your mentally ill rants under your real name on every popular discussion site. The mentally ill Google results when searching for your name aren't a blacklist.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492249)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 7:38 PM
Author: Trip Chest-beating Locale



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492268)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 8:47 PM
Author: ponyboy curtis



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492620)



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Date: December 5th, 2020 8:50 PM
Author: ponyboy curtis



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4705547&forum_id=2#41492631)