By "doxing" I meant posting someone's personal details as a way of attacking them. None of us would want that done to ourselves, and we owe the same consideration to others.
Nor is it needed for substantive discussion, which is the purpose of HN threads.
The problem with your golden rule there is that you make assumptions about what other people want.
But you can't dox yourself, in the usual meaning of the term.
I'd be willing to bet he's perfectly alright with someone posting his professional credentials on this site. I know I would be (and have, in fact).
So is it really doxxing at all, then?
This isn't a topic I'm all that passionate about, I just wanted to point out the differing opinion.
No.
But it's clear that the term "doxxing" (which I've never used before and apparently can't even spell) is a giant distraction. How about we just stick to the point about no personal attacks.
But you're right, this is hardly an important issue to me and we could go on about "doxxing" for days, so I'll consider my peace made.
This is the problem I have with HN moderation, they have rules that they selectively enforce but it's all built on their heuristics which they never flesh-out. Neither of us can go to a page on HN and run through a checklist to determine if content in a post will or will not be considered flaggable/bannable because it's a "closed source heuristic" if you will. There are guidelines sure, but the enforcement seems very wishy-washy and selective.