[kefka]

Doxxing? Not hardly. I typed in someone's username with "yelp" into google. Any hiring manager does that with prospective employees - why is it now verboten (and doxxing) to do with with usernames?

No matter. I do believe his real name was probably unjustified. So I did redact his real name on all my posts. But I know it's available with that photo on Google's first page results.

Still, it DOES NOT change that an engineer for the firm was acting as a first line of defense on HN. And yes, I was right in that he should have disclosed it.. Cause it sure as hell looks like a corporate sockpuppet.

[dang]

Bringing in someone's personal details to use against them as ammunition in an argument may or may not be 'doxxing' but it's a shockingly bad thing to do on HN, clearly a violation of the guidelines and a bannable offence. We won't ban you this time, but please don't do it again.