Why should it matter who wrote it?

One big reason I care about who wrote things is expertise. I've consistently seen informed and sensible security-related commentary from tptacek, so I would pay more attention to security-related advice with his name on it than if it was a name I didn't recognize.

And here am I going with the AI search engine flow, where Google's I feel Lucky is just a planet wide obedience to authority experiment whilst reading these comments like its something out of this unofficial textbook https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialEngineering/comments/xkw4p/th...

If people find a visit to Reddit to be unpalatable, may I suggest this highly spooky website link? https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

I wonder if the reason why people find hacker news to be so pleasant, is the subconsciously edgy non conformist website name, like its something to brag about at middle class dinner soiree's or a person in the street like a passive aggressive superiority boast, where its predominantly focused on science and technology subjects, in which to fuel the Ego driven quest for knowledge.

Would that be fair?

And yes I've been ruining the deceitful magic of Father Xmas not being real since I was 5 years old.

I guess it wouldn't if one didn't value people. YMMV, but I think people are kind of cool — so if I hear a great song I want to know who the artist was. It helps me build a mental model of what I might be able to expect from them. I'm kind of shocked that this might not be obvious to everyone, TBH.