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While the GP comment is completely inappropriate, I also think it's inappropriate for you to use your power to dox the trolls. Can't their comment stand on it's own demerits and downvotes?

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There is no "doxing" rule on HN. That, too, is a Redditism.

With people like Kathy Sierra pushed off Twitter, Kevin Mitnick threatening the job of a woman who stood up for her... And the high-profile guy who previously attacked Kathy coming out as a Nazi... Such harassers should be dealt with aggressively. (Deleted ASAP would be great.)

That's kinda funny of you mentioning the “high-profile guy”, because he wrote the following post not long ago, which mentions some lesser known women in tech than this article does:

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2hoffe/weev_stop_bash...

>And the high-profile guy who previously attacked Kathy coming out as a Nazi

I think he just said that to try to damage the reputation of nazis by association with him.

How is Can we have a publication named "The Forgotten Male Programmers Who Created Modern Tech" now?" harassment?

Seems like providing personal information of an individual who thought they were anonymous, and merely expressed an opinion, is more like harassment.

oh geez, "Somebody in Netherlands" is far from doxing. And that Somebody could be using a proxy. So all we know is that this person is human and located on earth... maybe.

EDIT: Sama or Dang should should just delete this whole thread. It's going to become a big irrelevant sideshow. It's already the longest thread here.

How is The Netherlands even relevant? Are Dutch people particularly troll-ish?

I read it as "you're not as anonymous as you think you are, troll."

Well everyone here is as anonymous as they choose to be, apart from being outed by mods. Given that mods can ban any person with a click, I don't see any excuse for them punishing people by selectively providing their personal information.

The original post was >Can we have a publication named "The Forgotten Male Programmers Who Created Modern Tech" now?

Is this really the sort of thing that warrants violating a persons privacy over? If we are going to use "name and shame" surely it should be for things that are manifestly abusive, not expressing an opinion.

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