>It's not intentional discrimination, [...]
Whatever the case, it makes them come across as jackasses.
The level of decorum here appears to have dropped significantly in the last few days with a lot of this sort of personal attack.
If they unwittingly discriminated against someone because of an unintentional consequence of an action taken in good faith and believed to be benevolent (preventing trolling, spamming and such on Quora) then how does that make the programmers "jackasses" (ie contemptibly foolish/stupid)?
Why not just say that it's a flawed filter, why the need for this sort of talk?
That isn't a personal attack on a HNer (unless the tech support happens to be a HNer, then that's unintentional). If my project does well enough to get a HN discussion, I'm sure I'll be stunned at the rude responses, but that's not people trying to be mean, it's just that people talking about someone they see as a third party tend to be a lot more straight-talking than if they are talking about each-other.
It's just that asking somebody to show some ID just because their name seems strange seems a bit ... strange. It's a website, not a home loan.
The level of decorum here appears to have dropped significantly in the last few days with a lot of this sort of personal attack.
If they unwittingly discriminated against someone because of an unintentional consequence of an action taken in good faith and believed to be benevolent (preventing trolling, spamming and such on Quora) then how does that make the programmers "jackasses" (ie contemptibly foolish/stupid)?
Why not just say that it's a flawed filter, why the need for this sort of talk?