The act of looking is normal. Running your code on their computer requires a lot of trust, after all.
But there’s nothing suspicious about having multiple nicknames. I don’t really get what they are talking about there.
But there’s nothing suspicious about having multiple nicknames. I don’t really get what they are talking about there.
Especially since it's looking and sharing for something as irrelevant as "HN name doesn't check out!"
This was to correct the doubt that the HN poster was not the same person as the GitHub user.
Conceding to you that a search can be useful, GP could've stopped at "The github is old and the person has other reputable projects". There was no reason to expand to the LinkedIn.
Only LinkedIn showed the link between the HN profile and the Github profile, because it lists both the project mentioned on the HN profile as well as the project listed in the Github profile.
That may tell more about the beholder than you think.
> Only LinkedIn showed the link between the HN profile and the Github profile, because it lists both the project mentioned on the HN profile as well as the project listed in the Github profile.
What if there was no link between the HN profile and GitHub, then? Would you conclude that, because you can't reliably link the HN profile to the GitHub profile (that was independently already trustworthy), this would make the project seem suspicious?
In other words -- Would your projects be more suspicious, if I, a total stranger, made Show HNs about them?
You're seeing my point, don't you?
I disagree with the idea that having multiple nicknames is suspicious, though. But, if that is something the poster believes, I guess I can see why they’d share it.
After the latest fun incidents with NPM and others, I just wanted to make a point how the way the project is currently "marketed" and distributed — and again, PERFECTLY fine for a first draft and "look what I built" — might stand in the way of it getting further traction.
And I did so in a very stream-of-consciousness way, trying to illustrate what I mean by "Trust & Safety issue".
All of the other aspects of identity are on the other side, the GitHub account with the real name, other projects, a reputation. So then, consider the Hackernews account to be some random, start the check-out at the GitHub, and you don’t see anything particularly suspicious.