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Just don't give him IRC ops and then get into a private argument with him. https://www.omnimaga.org/news/omnomirc-moved-to-new-server/m...

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Quite apart from this type of attack breaking the site guidelines and not being allowed on HN (about which see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25130908)... that was 9 years ago. Imagine being publicly shamed for the worst thing you've done in the past decade. I don't think anyone is going to pass that test.

Is this the kind of world you (or any of us) really want to be part of? Surely not. Therefore please don't help to create it here.

Wow. I'm honestly not surprised. That's ... that's pretty shitty.

Knowing a bit of his personal history I can kind of understand why he acts the way he does, and has the opinions he does. Doesn't excuse some of it, but at least I kinda get why.

I just wish his name would stop coming up for me tied to opinion pieces like this. I'd rather just see things about how some project he's working on is doing great and being widely adopted.

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