/me turns up the snark. Equating John Graham-Cumming to a random engineer has, on HN at least, about the same weight as equating PG to a financially succesful

/me turns up the snark. Equating John Graham-Cumming to a random engineer has, on HN at least, about the same weight as equating PG to a financially succesful blogger. The statement is factually accurate but deliberately ignores the wider context. Yes - I'm painfully aware that I just used the halo effect as a weapon. But the fact is that provenance and pedigree matter.