[nothrabannosir]

I don't think it's appropriate to throw around insults and claim jfgi when someone asks for a mordicum of clarification.

If you can't even manage one small teensy link, what respect does that show for your audience?

The only value comes from the ptacek brand, and the trust I have in him through context. But that's generally not a strong foundation to build an argument on.

To be clear: I trust him, but it's not his best post. And op was not out of line for speaking up.

Edit: sorry ryanlol I didnt mean you, but tptacek. It was perhaps too strongly worded. Didn't mean to attack anyone, just wanted to show support for yomism's point.

I consider myself a HN regular, but I dont read everything. Linode posts I subconsciously skip, as they don't interest me. This was honestly news to me. "Incomplete information", I believe that's called ;)

[ryanlol]

Who's throwing around insults? I specifically edited my comment to make sure it's not misinterpreted.

There's links elsewhere on this thread and Linodes security fuckups are a recurring subject of discussion on HN

[tptacek]

(1) "Mordicum" isn't a word in English, though it should be, and it is in Latin.

(2) Nobody is entitled to detailed comments from anyone on HN, and keeping comments terse simply isn't disrespectful.

I appreciate that it is annoying to have to make decisions with incomplete information, but that's life.

[dikaiosune]

I'm not sure what role spelling critique has in a conversation about technology providers, but to your second point I do think it's reasonable to expect that in public conversations claims be substantiated to a degree relative to their contentiousness. No one expects evidence or citations when you claim that good security is hard, but it's not so crazy to hope for even a respected member of the community to back up a stark claim. At the very least it's reasonable to ask for substantiation - whether or not the original commenter is comfortable discussing details.

[tptacek]

It's not a "claim". It's free advice. Take it or don't take it.

[psykovsky]

Good advices are rarely given, but sold...

[yomism]

I was going to apologize for using "dickish" in my answer before but seeing this you fit the definition perfectly ;-P

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dickish

I have read the horror stories thanks to ryanlol's posts but next time please post a link if you don't want to waste time re-explaining. Let's use the HTML powers!