Can you please be more clear with what you're trying to say then?

You obviously feel very strongly about pontifier and his past, given the amount of time you spent digging into his background, what is the point you are actually trying to make here? Be as direct as possible, please :)

I asked if the OP was the same person that was posting on Twitter, as what was posted there was a different tone from what was posted on HN. He answered in the affirmative.

I did not spend much time “digging into his background”, I clicked a link and read a few posts.

Why do you care? Be as direct as possible, please :)

TBF, there was an SWE on here a few years back and asked a sob story about how he cant find work and needs help, and a bunch of us pored over his request and posts, and it was only after I (and other) did basic DD - we found he was a convicted child sex offender.

:-(

So, we always want to help - I mean, FFS - people who develop tech/sw/hw/etc are actually looking at giving the fruits of their efforts out to the world, social support is no different...

But at times quick to help without judging the requestor past (HELLO PAC contributions :-))

I’ll bite - I only care because I think it’s important for others to see what your intentions are here. Now that I’ve answered your question, can you answer mine? :) If I wanted to, I’m sure I could Google some of your online identities and find a post your made in the past and then asked in a public forum if you’re the same person. I wouldn’t do that because I think it’s a bit creepy and impolite, but if I had a very specific reason for doing so, I might consider it. So I’ll ask again - what was your intention in connecting his identities here in such a direct way? You said something about “bought a town” and it being “political”, can you expand on what that means?

I actually misunderstood the wording, I’m now aware that he only bought 17 acres + 75 more properties in the area.

As for the weird threat of embarrassment… what? I literally just asked if he used the same username on both websites.

As for why I asked, I’ll answer again: his post on HN had a different tone from his posts on the bird site, and I wanted to know if they gave context to his post or were unrelated. For example, I do not own “braingenious” on twitter, and I wouldn’t want someone to mix me up with whoever that is.

I initially found this thread because someone mentioned it on Twitter. Spoiler: I did not go out of my way to gain any information.

As for how this relates to politics, I’ll refer to his own recent post about local politics affecting his project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474436

This has been a courtesy post because you have not answered “Why do you care?” and have failed to be direct. I will not engage with you any further.

I think I should TM Smooth-BrainGenius and sell it to anyone on twitter I can muster a nickle out of.

> I only care because I think it’s important for others to see what your intentions are here.

Always a losing strategy in my experience.

You seem far more obnoxious than the person you seem to be publicly drumming up hate for :)

Did you feel hatred for him after reading my post? That was not my intention. As I’ve stated, I was looking for clarity about posts with pretty different tones.

I invite you to not read questions directed at people other than you if you find them to be obnoxious.

> Did you feel hatred for him after reading my post?

No, why would I?

I don’t know either, that’s why I asked. If I were drumming up hate maybe you would’ve experienced it.

No, your attempt failed.

I am glad that we’ve agreed that I did not drum up any hate. Thank you for clarifying this.