> Are you saying that it is not allowed on HN to address someone by their name after they have introduced themselves?
We can't make a simple rule about this. Imagine someone posting "Oh my god, Joe Schmoe! We worked together at Acme Inc!" or whatever. That's harmless. But yeah, if you're in an argument with someone - don't go there. In that case it most likely signals personal aggression.
I appreciate that you don't like hypocrisy and posturing. I don't either. But there can easily be distortion in our interpretation of such things online. We have so few data points on each other that whatever picture we receive is mostly how our own imagination has connected the dots; and we tend to fill in the blank spaces with material from our own darker side. The net result is that we end up feeling surrounded by our own demons on the internet - I've written about this in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That clearly doesn't take us to good places, so we need to guard against it.
We can't make a simple rule about this. Imagine someone posting "Oh my god, Joe Schmoe! We worked together at Acme Inc!" or whatever. That's harmless. But yeah, if you're in an argument with someone - don't go there. In that case it most likely signals personal aggression.
I appreciate that you don't like hypocrisy and posturing. I don't either. But there can easily be distortion in our interpretation of such things online. We have so few data points on each other that whatever picture we receive is mostly how our own imagination has connected the dots; and we tend to fill in the blank spaces with material from our own darker side. The net result is that we end up feeling surrounded by our own demons on the internet - I've written about this in the past: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That clearly doesn't take us to good places, so we need to guard against it.