By now I'm sure most of you are familiar with the Bryan Colangelo / 76ers scandal erupting at the moment.
If you're not familiar what has essentially happened is an anonymous tip into a basketball blogger that they had used AI to scan open source data to determine there were five twitter users all linked to the President of Basketball Operations of the 76ers, Bryan Colangelo. I strongly recommend you look into this soap opera, it is amazing.
Some people have jokingly mentioned the fact that anyone of us could have gotten in a s**t fight with an actual GM. I'm here to confirm it is possible. I never shared this story at the time only because I thought it would embarrass the club.
For a period of time I was a mod at Saintsational and I received a pm advising to keep an eye out for a certain person from the club leaking information. I'm not going to give away the dates or the names but what i will say was at the club there was a major power struggle between two members of staff and that Saintsational account I was told to check out shared a few coincidences.
Being a mod I was able to view IPs, in searching the IP for this user it was based in Moorabbin and it signed up within a week of one of the feuding staff members starting work at the club. The email address was under a paid service domain (bigpond etc.) And had an email with the same first name, and same secondary initial as the staff member.
They provided some subtle hints of inside info. Criticised their rival, defended their role. This smear campaign continued until one of the parties left in shock circumstances.
Any former SS posters may know the story better as I understand I wasn't the only one who knew who it was.
I'm sure a lot of people will be skeptical but I don't think I've made too many big calls over the year so I'm not one to make s**t up.
If you're not familiar what has essentially happened is an anonymous tip into a basketball blogger that they had used AI to scan open source data to determine there were five twitter users all linked to the President of Basketball Operations of the 76ers, Bryan Colangelo. I strongly recommend you look into this soap opera, it is amazing.
Some people have jokingly mentioned the fact that anyone of us could have gotten in a s**t fight with an actual GM. I'm here to confirm it is possible. I never shared this story at the time only because I thought it would embarrass the club.
For a period of time I was a mod at Saintsational and I received a pm advising to keep an eye out for a certain person from the club leaking information. I'm not going to give away the dates or the names but what i will say was at the club there was a major power struggle between two members of staff and that Saintsational account I was told to check out shared a few coincidences.
Being a mod I was able to view IPs, in searching the IP for this user it was based in Moorabbin and it signed up within a week of one of the feuding staff members starting work at the club. The email address was under a paid service domain (bigpond etc.) And had an email with the same first name, and same secondary initial as the staff member.
They provided some subtle hints of inside info. Criticised their rival, defended their role. This smear campaign continued until one of the parties left in shock circumstances.
Any former SS posters may know the story better as I understand I wasn't the only one who knew who it was.
I'm sure a lot of people will be skeptical but I don't think I've made too many big calls over the year so I'm not one to make s**t up.