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>More importantly, this is gratuitously personal. Stalking expeditions are not welcome on Hacker News, whatever one's opinion of the story at hand. Please don't
by JonFish85 11y ago
>More importantly, this is gratuitously personal. Stalking expeditions are not welcome on Hacker News, whatever one's opinion of the story at hand. Please don't do this on this site.
I agree with your point that they are weird things to bring up, but how is that "stalking"? It's looking at 3 very public profile pages, which requires almost no effort to look at. Unless you've edited the post to remove information, that seems entirely benign. There's absolutely 0 expectation of privacy with those pages, and almost by definition were created to allow access for the general public to that information.
- dang 11y agoI meant it metaphorically, but yes I'm sure there are better ways of putting it. Sure, it's public data, but so are lots of things. When you search them out and compile them, you create something different than the scattered pieces. To do that and use it to attack somebody, or insinuate about them personally, crosses a line we shouldn't cross here. I suspect crabasa meant no harm, was just being curious and participating in the discussion, but in these cases the group dynamic tends quickly to get a lot uglier than the sum of our individual motives.