I don't have a full list of all posts at hand (some of which may be removed), but I've seen some other similar stuff as well; it's not an isolated incident. I was reading through the previous thread on this issue (goproxy sending loads of requests) and this one was posted as an example there.
The linked comment was indeed out of line, and perhaps you feel justified in thinking that it should be sufficient grounds for a permanent expulsion from the community. I won't argue with that, fair enough. However, I don't think it's reasonable to use it as grounds to suggest that anyone should have their servers DoSed by Google with no recourse, and I think blocking Google is a reasonable move given two years of inaction from the Go team to resolve the issue.
Of course not; this entire thread isn't necessarily hugely on-topic here, but it got brought up, so ... well ... here we are. And in fairness, you did bring up your ban in the posted article.
> The linked comment was indeed out of line, and perhaps you feel justified in thinking that it should be sufficient grounds for a permanent expulsion from the community. I won't argue with that, fair enough.
No, I don't think anyone should be banned for a singular comment, no matter how egregious. Everyone deserves second chances, and third ones, even fourth ones maybe. There's some decent data from Stack Overflow that shows that after a ban many people keep posting and many don't get a second ban (i.e. their behaviour improves).
> I have good reason to believe that this incident is unrelated to the reason I am presently banned.
I think the thing is that it's part of a pattern. Usually the "final straw" isn't the worst incident, or even that bad of an incident in itself. Incidents like this aren't isolated and previous behaviour does tend to factor in: "oh, that's the same guy who called us a bunch of morons last year".
Wait, did some folks in the Go community write that EFAIL site that was referenced as a reason to drop OpenPGP? If so, that changes the context of the post a bit, but I didn't see anything indicating that was the case in the linked thread.
2. This specific offer is not satisfactory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34313802
In the interest of not feeding the trolls, I think I can safely stop engaging with you on this thread. Or maybe on any thread -- you and I never seem to have a productive conversation on this website.
HN would be so very much more pleasant with ignore-lists.
ddevault on Feb 15, 2019
"EFAIL" is an alarmist puff piece written by morons to slander PGP and inflate their egos. The standards don't need to change to fix the problems it mentions. The proposals help... marginally. The problem is not and was never with OpenPGP, it's with poorly written email clients (e.g. all email clients).