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[personal information redacted] edit replacement: amichail's posted his own information fairly prominently; I think his refusal to explicitly state his cultural background was rhetorical. I consider a psuedonym like "cousin_it" to be private, but a real name like "jaquesm" or "amichail" a public statement of identity. end edit replacement. I was curious enough to look it up because he posted the exact same comments on reddit a day or so ago.

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I join stse in saying that the stalking was uncalled for: amichail had clearly indicated his desire for privacy by the time you made this comment. I'd also like the people who upvoted khafra to +5 to provide some sort of explanation, because this behavior seems to me more actively harmful than amichail's purported sexist remarks. I often express opinions that people may not like; am I to take that people will cyber-stalk me for that? Do you want HN to become this kind of place?

Edit: khafra, thanks a lot for editing the post. This reaffirms my faith that HN is an exceptionally good online community.

I'm off several minds on this:

1) if you make remarks online you always have to remember that you are speaking 'in public' and that anybody that wants to know more about you probably can and will.

2) that the timing of the disclosure was less than elegant to put it mildly, he already said 'no', that should have been enough (it was for me).

3) that the same thing happening on reddit several days ago apparently is what drove Khafra to wonder just like I did if this might be a cultural thing. If someone makes a point out of continuously harping on a very controversial opinion then that will make people curious about you. Still, point (2) holds strong and that should not have been done. I don't know if Khafra can still remove the post but if I were him I would do so.

Hm, maybe we need privacy guidelines at HN. Let people disclose information on their own terms.

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