[smoyer]

I tend to lean towards patio11's solution simply because the description of the perpetrator made him sound like someone who already failed to grasp the limits of the social contract.

As for patio11's being sketchy, I think I've read everything he's written (starting on the Joel-on-Software forum) and while I don't agree with him on everything, I do believe he's got reasonable ethics and morals. Why use the word sketchy when you simply don't agree with his opinion? And bear in mind it was an opinion based solely on what was written in that Ask HN.

[icebraining]

Why use the word sketchy when you simply don't agree with his opinion?

The post described a pretty different situation that just disagreeing with him. Not that I'm taking it at face value, since it wasn't described in enough detail to evaluate it for myself.

[Mendenhall]

Good points, I was only basing my information on what she said about her previous experience with him, based solely on that I think he sounds "sketchy" but also notice in the same line I put "but you know how internet rumors etc are."

I don't just take her opinion on him as fact, I have had no personal interaction with him nor do I draw the conclusion he is actually sketchy, I just take it as one persons opinion about another and know either and or both can be skewed because of past history.