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People deserve respect whether you like it or not.

No, respect is default, until lost.

Are you conflating respect (treating someone with human decency) with respect (treating someone as an authority)?

sure, in the real world we're all going around checking everyone's respect earnings to know whether we should use their preferred names, pronouns, exempt them from our favourite slurs. Gotta earn that

What's "the real world"?

I don't think sli was referring to respecting by not linking, I think they were talking about respecting one's identity.

But that would be a loss to community, and we would not want Foone to goes full offline won't we ?

??? what is so subjective about listening to someone if they ask you reasonable?

You can reasonably ask an unreasonable request. If the neighbour politely told me that they don’t like me walking past their house on the public sidewalk, I will ignore such a request because I’m entitled to walk on public property. Just like how I believe it’s unreasonable to request people do not link to public web pages.

A reasonable request would be “I never published this publicly or have since deleted it, please stop reposting it”

The subjective part is they believe it is reasonable to request this while others do not.