Dunno what you're getting at here, GP was making a real point in a tongue-in-cheek way, it's not a "low effort meme joke".

If they're making a point, I don't understand it. They seem to be ridiculing someone for trying to protect their identity. Any famous person will be acutely aware of how problematic it can be to "just join a server as your real identity."

I've had similar problems. I fully agree with the other commenter: if you have a point, just say it minus the cheek.

It was a point agreeing with the person they were replying too. The social rules of technical communities and informal gaming communities are very different, and the commenter highlighted that. I wouldn't want the same name in a technical and gaming community for basically that reason.

> They seem to be ridiculing someone for trying to protect their identity.

As mentioned in another comment: Quite the opposite.

Discord should easily allow to have completely separate identities with no connection to each other at all.

If that's not possible and there's the risk of mixing up my private life and whatnot with my work life, Discord should not be the place/service to use.

You did miss the point then, they were not ridiculing the person they were pointing out how such a thing happens on discord.

HN has not been a serious place for civil discussions in a long time. Users are now actively hostile towards opinions that don't score well on reddit. A larger percentage of posts contribute little to the discussion. Many of the early members who helped shape the community have left. The "interesting" posts that are supposed to make up the front page have steadily gone down in quality.

Sounds like a generic "it was better in the older times" comment, which is highly subjective to your perception.

I don't see how this contributtes to the civil discussion we are trying to have here on an interesting post.

3 posts up and you're making a pussy destroyer joke. I invite you to go back and look at posts from 2013. Tally the redditor-style lame jokes and unsolicited opinion posts against the paragraphs of industry experience.

I have expressed a good few heterodox opinions on HN that are accepted without vitriol. So, I am not sure I agree.

HN expects you to be civil, and abide by the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence " paradigm. I find them to be reasonable requirements.

If you'd like to express more heterodox views then there are a few rationalist-adjacent splinter groups around the internet with excellent discourse over a wide range of opinions. Each splinter group has different overton windows, but they're all of a really high quality.