funrep · August 22, 2013 12:32
diff --git a/attack_documented b/attack_documented
 August 21, 2013 19:26

 I got this in my inbox:

 "No one is denying there are serious security flaws here which ought to be addressed, but this is just silly. @klrr, if this is your idea of contributing to the Haskell community (re: our discussion in IRC), you need to rethink your approach. Creating fake accounts just to trump up some pet issue with implausible stories is not acceptable behavior." - Brent Yorgey

 The person in qusetion had commentated this on github.

 Earlier that day someone posted this to Helm (which is a game engine I've contributed to) https://github.com/z0w0/helm/issues/38

 And since it seemed irrelevant to Helm and more like something that should be filed on cabal's bug tracker I wrote this:

 "Isn't this something cabal itself should warn the user about?"

 I immediately contacted Brent Yorgey who is a moderator on Haskell's IRC channels. His argument for his accuses was that I had similar avatars as the the guy who had filed the bug report at Helm (and the one on cabal's one) and another person who had commented on the cabal issue. The reason for this is that we all used the defaults avatars which recently got changed, more info about that here: https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons

 I showed him the link and that I was a contributed to Helm and that is why I commented on the issue, he apoligized and later changed his offensive message to this:

 "(Update: in a previous version of this comment I too hastily accused @klrr of creating those accounts -- but my only evidence for that was the similarity of the icons, which, it has been pointed out to me, are similar because they were auto-generated. Sorry about that.)"
	August 21, 2013 19:26

	I got this in my inbox:

	"No one is denying there are serious security flaws here which ought to be addressed, but this is just silly. @klrr, if this is your idea of contributing to the Haskell community (re: our discussion in IRC), you need to rethink your approach. Creating fake accounts just to trump up some pet issue with implausible stories is not acceptable behavior." - Brent Yorgey

	The person in qusetion had commentated this on github.

	Earlier that day someone posted this to Helm (which is a game engine I've contributed to) https://github.com/z0w0/helm/issues/38

	And since it seemed irrelevant to Helm and more like something that should be filed on cabal's bug tracker I wrote this:

	"Isn't this something cabal itself should warn the user about?"

	I immediately contacted Brent Yorgey who is a moderator on Haskell's IRC channels. His argument for his accuses was that I had similar avatars as the the guy who had filed the bug report at Helm (and the one on cabal's one) and another person who had commented on the cabal issue. The reason for this is that we all used the defaults avatars which recently got changed, more info about that here: https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons

	I showed him the link and that I was a contributed to Helm and that is why I commented on the issue, he apoligized and later changed his offensive message to this:

	"(Update: in a previous version of this comment I too hastily accused @klrr of creating those accounts -- but my only evidence for that was the similarity of the icons, which, it has been pointed out to me, are similar because they were auto-generated. Sorry about that.)"