Comment by dang
8 years ago
Please don't do the internet psychiatric diagnosis trope on HN. Casually invoking a category like 'psychopath' significantly lowers the signal/noise ratio in a thread, and even if you don't direct it at a specific person, someone else will. Moreover the frame of this article means your comment is insinuating something about someone whether you mean it to or not, and that's beyond gross and into hideous.
Internet threads are like tag-team wrestling: the first guy drags a metal chair into the ring and then the second guy bashes a third guy over the head with it. Keep the chair out of the ring.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837253 and marked it off-topic.
So by daring to say that this behavior might be caused by someone who is characterized by the worst kind of lack of ethics, I'm in the wrong?
This is a phenomenon that studies show occurs at something like 2-3% in the population at large... but more common among CEO's. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7841742 I'll just, you know, stop using it and monitor the potential security hole for the rest of my life.