[HN Gopher] Official Warning: Bryan Kirk (Zero3K)
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Official Warning: Bryan Kirk (Zero3K)
Author : timeoperator
Score : 100 points
Date : 2023-01-21 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (reactos.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (reactos.org)
| chayesfss wrote:
| [flagged]
| chayesfss wrote:
| [flagged]
| trashburger wrote:
| It seems that every big project attracts that one persistent
| weirdo who comes by from time to time and posts silly stuff. I've
| noticed this pattern for a while now. I don't want to give names
| but I've at least seen some... bizarre issues on the LLVM
| tracker, for example.
| [deleted]
| adenozine wrote:
| Oh man, yeah there has been some absolute dogshit ones on LLVM.
| The Docker one has also seen some pretty freaky weirdos.
|
| It's a bit sad, we're all on the same OSS team in the end. I've
| never found it that difficult to keep it cut and dry on
| software repos, I don't know why people don't just save the
| venom for forums and social media like the good ol days.
| loeg wrote:
| Yeah. Same story on every open source bugzilla I've been on.
| Temporary_31337 wrote:
| Is no one commenting for fear of being harassed?
| ericol wrote:
| In my experience (And observations), depending on _interest_
| posts start gathering comments after at least the hour mark.
| This post right now is 25 mins old, although its' weird that
| it's so high in the front page (Probably a slow Saturday)
| barefeg wrote:
| Off topic and probably the wrong place to ask, but how are
| the posts ranked? I have also seen posts that are very high
| but with little to no comments
| wlesieutre wrote:
| From the FAQ:
|
| _How are stories ranked?_
|
| The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time
| since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked
| the same way.
|
| Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse
| software, software which demotes overheated discussions,
| account or site weighting, and moderator action.
| andrewflnr wrote:
| Indeed, the "overheated discussions" factor probably
| downgrades heavily-commented stories, not the other way
| around. I for one tend to regard a high upvote/comment
| ratio as a positive sign about a story.
| paganel wrote:
| I have no affiliation with the ReactOS project but I honestly
| think that the doxxing could and should have been avoided
| (assuming the name included in the title is a person's real
| name). It probably also goes against some HN rules, but I may
| be wrong or that.
| zacharyvoase wrote:
| Posting the name of a harasser is not doxxing.
| lifeisstillgood wrote:
| Well I was but now you mentioned it ...
|
| :-)
|
| I just think it's sad, and one of the many things we need to
| think about to fix FOSS, because FOSS will save us :-)
| xwdv wrote:
| I'm not commenting because I don't give a damn about Bryan
| Kirk. He's a nut job, and not even a particularly interesting
| one.
| [deleted]
| throwaway0x7E6 wrote:
| [flagged]
| 8jy89hui wrote:
| This is unacceptable. Please don't say such hateful things on
| hacker news. It really brings the whole site down.
| throwaway0x7E6 wrote:
| no it doesn't, these things get flagged in minutes and only
| the people with showdead get to appreciate these
| [deleted]
| blondin wrote:
| [flagged]
| ahelwer wrote:
| "I saw some random crap on the internet so now other people
| have to start behaving in a certain way" is certainly one of
| many possible ways to navigate the world.
| blondin wrote:
| [flagged]
| ahelwer wrote:
| Starting a crusade against anime pfps (one of the most
| ubiquitous styles on the entire internet) after you watched
| a youtube expose of an evil online forum is not a
| reasonable thing to do.
| thedonkeycometh wrote:
| [dead]
| [deleted]
| BryanKirk wrote:
| [dead]
| Waterluvian wrote:
| There are some people that are so divergent from understanding
| and being able to perform or at least emulate normal social
| behaviour that they become harmful and problematic. I watched
| one, quite closely, develop through high school. I can still hear
| his smug "nah" any time you said something he didn't agree with.
| Well, not "agree with" but "that he knew to be universally
| correct."
|
| Ultimately he ended up unemployable and bitter while his family
| tripled down on him being the victim because of an Asperger's
| diagnosis. Moved to central Canada last time I heard.
|
| I think what I learned from the experience is at some point
| you've got to compartmentalize harmful people from your groups
| and inevitably a growing number of segments of society, even if
| that feels wrong in some way. It's more wrong to let them
| perpetually abuse people.
| system2 wrote:
| Somewhat very unprofessional warning and straight-up doxing. What
| would be the alternative to this warning?
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