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Comment by tempodox | Hacker News Reader

This is terrible. I'd rather have an un-illustrated guide with just the facts.

You have exactly that in the specification. "This is terrible" is unproductive when this is clearly targeted at someone looking for a more high level explanation of OAuth and OpenId.

Not the GP, but “this is terrible” is the kind of feedback I hope to find in hacker news discussions. I want to know how other developers assess the original article.

I hope to find constructive criticism, ie. it's terrible because of this and that and I would improve it like this and that.

My improvement would be to leave out the condescending comics and describe roles and interactions in a way that's appropriate for adults.

How is this inappropriate for adults? You are free not to like it, but you shouldn't gatekeep others.

Please, that's not what gatekeeping is. You might as well start throwing around accusations of racism.

It's gatekeeping all right. It's a statement about what real adults should like and not.

What you're doing is an absurd straw man, please don't behave like that.

I am free to not like it but when I say why I don't like it I'm gatekeeping?

I find the texts in the comics not very readable. I understand it is meant to show the text as if written by someone on a whiteboard fast, so its a bit like intentionally made less readable, than it could be.

I'd like to see your response to rendaw's comment: "None of these guides really get to the critical difference and relation between OAuth and OpenID."

Fair enough. This is what the RFCs are for, which I also prefer.

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