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Erik Uden 🍑

@skobkin I have no idea. Really. I mean, let's roll back here a bit: in what UNIVERSE does having a phone number mean having 24/7 Friday night support ready? Call your local supermarket, why don't ya? Some local office of some nonsense company? They don't got support. They use their phone number to do business calls during business hours... What? The reasoning here is just incredible.

Then the fact they're calling me on my personal mobile phone over a 35€ internet contract which includes a phone number - which is the phone number of my company... which can be found on my company's website? You wouldn't need to be a genius to figure that one out, but I think we're going about this too rational.

They aren't trying to understand it, rather they are actively trying to weaponize their stupidity and incompetence to annoy me. The goal here isn't to be helpful or ask honest questions, the goal was simply to turn Erik Uden into a spectacle, which was entertaining for a while, but gets old really quick.

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Alexey Skobkin

@ErikUden
I hope you'll get rid of them ASAP and forget about it. It's not worth of your time and your peace of mind.
BTW, if they're using your instance, I'd set a deadline for them to move to another server. It's okay to not agree with someone, but threatening is another matter.

Erik Uden 🍑

@skobkin Completely agree! They are not on our instance, to be fair, I also would not ban them if they were, just ask them to not do this any further and then ignore them.

You are right that this is not worth my time and usually I would not publicize something like this - however, I felt like I wanted to speak up about it because it has never happened to me before and I do not know how to deal with it?

I wanted to talk about it because it was surprising... to say the least. In the future I will no longer bug my timeline with it.

@skobkin Completely agree! They are not on our instance, to be fair, I also would not ban them if they were, just ask them to not do this any further and then ignore them.

You are right that this is not worth my time and usually I would not publicize something like this - however, I felt like I wanted to speak up about it because it has never happened to me before and I do not know how to deal with it?

Alexey Skobkin

@ErikUden
Yeah, I can understand your frustrarion. Sometimes we meet completely irrational people and it's very hard to comprehend what's going on in their heads. Often it's not worth it to even try.

And no, I wasn't suggesting to ban them right away, just let them know that with such behavior they're not welcome. And if they're not on your instance then it's probably not even worth blocking them. So you're right, ignoring them sounds like the best choice.

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@ErikUden
Yeah, I can understand your frustrarion. Sometimes we meet completely irrational people and it's very hard to comprehend what's going on in their heads. Often it's not worth it to even try.

And no, I wasn't suggesting to ban them right away, just let them know that with such behavior they're not welcome. And if they're not on your instance then it's probably not even worth blocking them. So you're right, ignoring them sounds like the best choice.

GunChleoc

@skobkin @ErikUden I guess it might also be the price of fame because you had the audacity to be funny on TV.

Florian Idelberger

@ErikUden @skobkin also no just because you have a phone number as expense, this cannot be expected to be a support line. I might have hung up right then. You can use it for whatever you want.

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