Comment by hypfer

Yes, exactly. Though, not by default.

If something seems _odd_, I suggest looking up _why_ it might be odd. Gathering context, essentially.

Like "Okay, this guy is weird. Aah, okay, LinkedIn says that he works there. Okay _now_ that makes sense".

Based on that, you can then decide how to approach the (previously failing) interaction.

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HN is a very easy place for that, because, to give somewhat concrete examples, if someone is shilling for something and seems unreachable for common sense, LinkedIn usually tells you that their salary depends on that.

And people play very open here, because this is treated as a business networking event.