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.

  • @Dasus
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    1213 hours ago

    Which is exactly the reason we are in a post discussing it.

      • @Dasus
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        18 hours ago

        May I suggest a European one?

        • @[email protected]
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          18 hours ago

          I don’t see how that would be possible, as Mangioni is American and StackOverflow/StackExchange is based in the US. The only way this makes it to European courts is if somehow the holding company that owns it (Prosus) is sued, since they’re headquartered in Amsterdam, but that seems incredibly unlikely.

          • @Dasus
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            18 hours ago

            holding company that owns it (Prosus) is sued, since they’re headquartered in Amsterdam, but that seems incredibly unlikely.

            Idk if theyre headquartered here maybe threes something in European laws idk.

            Unlikely sure but I can wish it.

            Although I like the company name.