Right? If you're asked not to speak at a conference, why would you go on to cons...

stlHusker · on May 21, 2019

It is the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

As another person mentioned, DerbyCon got tired of dealing with it (https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-9-0-every-beginning-h...). And then had to respond to a bullshit storm related to their integrity a month later (https://www.derbycon.com/blog/derbycon-clarifications-inclus...).

chrisseaton · on May 21, 2019

I could turn that around to you: why would you expect someone removed from a schedule for being known to be disruptive, to not be disruptive when removed?

somebodyelse1 · on May 21, 2019

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unbalancedparen · on May 21, 2019

Hello somebodyelse1. We had our commercial reasons to change the lineup. After living this, I think their reaction speaks for itself.

duxup · on May 21, 2019

Invited and then dis-invited doesn't seem to change much.

The response still seems way out of line / indicate the dis-invite was for good reason.