Front page test – an ethical standard for behavior that evaluates each action through the lens of the media/outside world. Example: What would happen if HN fou

Front page test – an ethical standard for behavior that evaluates each action through the lens of the media/outside world. Example: What would happen if HN found out we’re mining our users’s IMs? I feel like I might be okay with it if was a university (.edu domain) and I knew it was anonymized. Not sure I'd be okay with a random blog doing that.