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Official Warning: Zero3K

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Re: Official Warning: Zero3K

#31

Post by jiveturkey »

> Some devs were harassed

> recommend to contact the local authorities

Does this kind of behavior meet the bar for legal harassment? In California it seems not per https://www.courts.ca.gov/1258.htm?rdeLocaleAttr=en which requires a threat of violence to rise to the level of harassment.

Does the post's recommendation rise to the level of legal advice? This all feels very childish to me.

Re: Official Warning: Zero3K

#32

Post by pifm_guy »

system2 wrote: post #30

Somewhat very unprofessional warning and straight-up doxing. What would be the alternative to this warning?

Indeed... If I had to ban a community member for bad behaviour, I would want to do it in the most professional way possible, and never to directly accuse OP of anything not backed up with a direct link to evidence of wrongdoing.

Re: Official Warning: Zero3K

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Post by stjohnswarts »

I had an embedded project once that was a personal one, but a few dozen people seemed to have used parts of it in their own stuff (it was MIT licensed). Then along came "Henry" (made up to protect the not so innocent). He had some ideas on the architecture. They weren't bad but I didn't care to change the core of my project and told him I would be happy if he forked my stuff and reused whatever he liked and I'd put an "alternatives" section in the github readme and that would be that. Henry was having -none- of that, he wanted to "work with me", etc, etc. Somehow he eventually got my phone number and was actually calling me out of the blue. Luckily it was a google voice number that I could easily drop. I just shut down the project, sent the people I knew who were actively using it notice and final git checkin of my RC changes, put a notice on the page I was shutting it down and to get it before I deleted my repo and account. The other stuff I had on there was private so I just created a new github moved it out and then closed out the other account after a month. It's quite scary how far people will go to troll and interfere in your life over something so unimportant as a small github side project.

Re: Official Warning: Zero3K

#34

Post by pifm_guy »

zacharyvoase wrote: post #29
paganel wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 on that.

Posting the name of a harasser is not doxxing.

Yes it is, especially if it's posted with no evidence backing up the claims.

For all we know, this might be a private dispute between two people, and, if presented all the information, Bryan's side might be the side that sounds more reasonable...

Re: Official Warning: Zero3K

#36

Post by pifm_guy »

trashburger wrote: post #12

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.

Luckily, most projects seem to have a few supporters who want to help the project but don't have the technical skills yet to do so. For these people, managing the forums and bug reports is a valuable way contribute.

They can keep the noise and disruption of the craziest spammers to a minimum.

Re: Official Warning: Zero3K

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Post by WhiteBlueSkies »

jiveturkey wrote: post #31

> Some devs were harassed > recommend to contact the local authorities Does this kind of behavior meet the bar for legal harassment? In California it seems not per https://www.courts.ca.gov/1258.htm?rdeLocaleAttr=en which requires a threat of violence to rise to the level of harassment. Does the post's recommendation rise to the level of legal advice? This all feels very childish to me.

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Re: Official Warning: Zero3K

#40

Post by KyeRussell »

This accusation of “doxxing” by a few people seems a bit unjustified to me. As a drive by viewer of this internet spat, you’ve probably got zero idea how much this person implicates their real-life identity in their online presence. If you want to both-sides this, there was much more credible arguments to make.
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