Ah, if kentonv can't delete his comment due to replies, he's already doxx'd, so yeah, no point.

Thanks for clarifying that!

Cloudflare employees are always very active and open on HN... kentonv is a well known commenter here, and is well known as the tech lead for workers. I don't think he needs your help here.

dude, he doesn't care. he doesn't need your help. his dox are already on the internet. a guy like him is going to stand behind the statement he made, and be willing to push back against management.

Yes. But... I don't think I made any statements against my own management here. Are people reading something anti-Cloudflare in my comment?

No, it reads mildly anti-fastly. I think I assumed you'd be talking to management about the tos since you weren't aware of it.

TL;DR characterizing the situation as mud-slinging seemed way off key from a disinvested party's perspective. Your mileage may vary, there's no absolutes, and you certainly have enough experience in the industry and being in the public eye that generic advice isn't necessarily valuable here, as our friend points out.

To your point, maybe it is a problem.

Who knows. Life is messy, and pitching absolutes that you pretend are clear to everyone else in order to intensify criticism of a person for having any thought at all, actually only makes it harder to everyone else. (this is response to our friend here, not you)

I just replied to your initial post here: noted there, and noting here, the situations a little bit different, for the first 20 minutes after he posted, we all weren't clear on who he was and gave advice as if it was the median situation.

I'm not sure why you're continuing to react strongly and personally to me. We shouldn't expect everyone to know everyone involved on a first name basis, immediately. We can't subject everyone to 21 questions about their personal and work history before responding to them, as that would also be rude. The replies in the first half hour all didn't have the context you had, and have now provided to the thread, and we universally reacted the same way. Mine more measure and polite, hence why its ranked highly and getting tons of replies now that activity has settled in.