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Stilgherrian
Personal blog · stilgherrian.comculturepolitics
Stilgherrian is a personal blog at stilgherrian.com about culture and politics. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Conversations are not markets”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stilgherrian's posts about the "only one name" problem and real-name policies, such as Google+ suspending accounts. Other links cover Twitter hashtags and marketing on Twitter.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Conversations are not markets2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-26
What Hacker News says?
Stilgherrian[1], a technology journalist and commentator from Australia has had issues with this, particularly the Google Plus name policy. He changed his name to his online handle because that's simply what everyone called him. If I'm designing regular expression to parse a phone number, I make sure that it works on ALL valid phone numbers for the regions required. The same should be done for name policies that are…
Comment linking /category/only-one-name/
on “Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name”Submitted I just don’t get LinkedIn, do you? as a story · 126 points
HN discussionThey won't necessarily know, but the consequences can be really, really shitty if you get flagged (correctly or incorrectly) for violating a real name policy. Check out this blog post: https://stilgherrian.com/only-one-name/right-google-you-stup... Australian guy has the full, legal name "Stilgherrian." Google+ eventually flags his account has having a fake name, and suspends him. Now, imagine you have an uncommon n…
Comment linking /only-one-name/right-google-you-stupid-cunts-this-is-simply-not-on
on “Facebook Apologizes to LGBT Community and Promises Changes to Real Name Policy”Submitted Interesting and true (if sweary) rant on G+'s naming policy as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRelated: An Aussie journo who goes by one name, and the problems he has with that. http://stilgherrian.com/category/only-one-name/
Comment linking /category/only-one-name/
on “My last name is correct and your DB validation is stupid”Submitted “I don’t understand computers” is not an excuse as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhere is another example of #hashtag "manipulation" http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/fisting-twitter/
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on “Seeing a Twitter #Hashtag Spread”Submitted So LinkedIn is a giant Rolodex, eh? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's been a bit of debate lately amongst a few Australian bloggers about how Twitter is viewed by marketers as just another place where they must impose themselves, to shout their message. Not a damned consideration that we might not want it to be a commercial space, but instead would prefer it to be a social space. (As the blogger Stilgherrian notes below, there are boundaries, within which, commercial action in…
Comment linking /human-nature/conversations-are-not-markets-people/
on “How To Steal From Your Competitors Using Twitter”Submitted Why tweeting my movements isn’t a safety risk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conversations are not markets as a story · 1 points
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