[OpenID] Anti-endorsement of Eran Hammer-Lahav

[SitG Admin]

>>What is being hidden? Explain the value of knowing some "real" name,
>
>Perhaps the same value it has for you for not disclosing who you are.

Exactly. The value it has to me (protecting my clients, thus 
preserving my reputation business-wise) is the same to an attacker 
who has malicious intentions upon one of my clients in pursuit of 
their goals, or a competitor who may desire to steal my clients (thus 
improving their own business by the value of mine) by sabotaging my 
ability to continue providing services to my clients.

>Publicly going with your name has perhaps something to do with 
>upfront honesty.

Which is why I have remained with "SitG Admin" on the To line, and 
used Shade as my signature.

>Anybody has the right to remain anonymous (right, up to a certain 
>limit usually). But with it comes a price - apparently a price you 
>aren't willing to pay either.

What price is that? "You can be anonymous, but we don't want you to 
exist in our world - not to have to deal with you, or your ideas."?

>Common, be a man and stop whining!

Now who's stooping to personal attacks? Forget diversity: who would 
WANT to be (out as) a woman on the Board, when even in the 
*community* people are told to be men?

>Respect the rules the foundation and the law set up and pay the 
>price you have to pay for your conscious decision (which nobody 
>forced upon you)

The conscious decision was not forced upon me, no. But when you say 
things like "pay the price you have to pay", it seems like you WOULD, 
perhaps, act to force upon us consequences that are not necessarily 
mandated by our choices. If they were, you would not have to demand 
that we do anything - you could just ignore us, secure that we would 
ultimately face punishment.

>without inciting with heroic anti-endorsements and slandering of a 
>real name from the side-lines.

Careful with your words! Slander has a real legal meaning - and, 
setting aside the distinction of whether it should be libel (printed 
word), one condition is that the words must be *false*: can you point 
out any sentence (or fragment thereof, allowing that I do construct 
rather long sentences) where I have MISrepresented Eran's position?

I was very conservative in describing the position he took, because I 
do care about quoting people accurately, so I am confident that you 
will not be able to find this, if you look - I *encourage* you to 
look, therefore, so you can satisfy yourself that no slander has 
occurred.

>You only allow yourself to slander other names because you remained anonymous

There's nothing stopping me from expressing criticism of someone's 
position. Indeed, one would think that accountability (to say nothing 
of basic RESPONSIBILITY) would DEMAND it! If we (fore)see a problem, 
let us speak out, not forever keep silent lest we admit that anything 
may be less than perfect! (Transparency.)

>what a hero!

Any fame I've accrued is probably due to people making a big fuss 
over what is just due process, in a community such as we claim/aspire 
to be. If you see me banned for it, then you may as well add "martyr" 
to the list as well, and again this wouldn't be a consequence I 
either sought or, through my choices, inherently approved of - it 
would be a punishment levied by others.

>If you would have balls you'd do that as a person, not as an alias!

I've never been particularly impressed by balls, nor by any person 
for having them, and to the extent that having any has ever entered 
into my considerations for the future, I think that it would have 
been as something to be avoided ;p

-Shade
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