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It wasn't that she was "outed", but that the Maine GOP used the (public) fact that she plays a game enjoyed by millions as the basis for a shameful smear campai

It wasn't that she was "outed", but that the Maine GOP used the (public) fact that she plays a game enjoyed by millions as the basis for a shameful smear campaign. If the people in Maine decide that playing WOW is enough to decide their vote, then I guess they'll get the representatives that they deserve.

jlgreco 14y ago
The comments that they dredged up were technically public, though I assume she made them under the assumption that people outside that immediate audience wouldn't be reading them. Even if she doesn't lose the election because of this, it is a shame she has to deal with this kind of crap at all.
- MartinCron 14y ago
  It's a shame that she has to deal with this kind of crap at all, although she should have known better. If you're going to run for office, you should just assume that anything you do on any public web site (even a de-facto private one like that) will be taken out of context and used against you. I can see some poor campaign intern, years from now, slogging through all of my HN comments to find something to use against me while I run for local office. Poor kid.
  - adgar2 14y ago
    > I can see some poor campaign intern, years from now, slogging through all of my HN comments to find something to use against me while I run for local office. Poor kid. Be smart: rotate your online accounts regularly. Do it on reddit, HN, any place where changing your identity is relatively cheap (FB unfortunately is not one). Also unfortunately, pg doesn't allow deleting accounts on HN. Who knows why. So for HN, just stop posting on your current account, and start a new one, hoping pg wakes up and lets us delete our accounts in the future.
    - MartinCron 14y ago
      I see the benefits of online account rotation, but I've decided to just stick with my real name and try not to say anything too stupid. It's like walking a tightrope without a net.

jlgreco 14y ago

The comments that they dredged up were technically public, though I assume she made them under the assumption that people outside that immediate audience wouldn't be reading them. Even if she doesn't lose the election because of this, it is a shame she has to deal with this kind of crap at all.

MartinCron 14y ago
It's a shame that she has to deal with this kind of crap at all, although she should have known better. If you're going to run for office, you should just assume that anything you do on any public web site (even a de-facto private one like that) will be taken out of context and used against you. I can see some poor campaign intern, years from now, slogging through all of my HN comments to find something to use against me while I run for local office. Poor kid.
- adgar2 14y ago
  > I can see some poor campaign intern, years from now, slogging through all of my HN comments to find something to use against me while I run for local office. Poor kid. Be smart: rotate your online accounts regularly. Do it on reddit, HN, any place where changing your identity is relatively cheap (FB unfortunately is not one). Also unfortunately, pg doesn't allow deleting accounts on HN. Who knows why. So for HN, just stop posting on your current account, and start a new one, hoping pg wakes up and lets us delete our accounts in the future.
  - MartinCron 14y ago
    I see the benefits of online account rotation, but I've decided to just stick with my real name and try not to say anything too stupid. It's like walking a tightrope without a net.