Where is the evidence? Searching for that person's name in quotes along with either the author's name or the startup name does not seem to return any evidence.
clearly you only read the name not the entire post. the original commenter mentions that it is his own name and was just pointing out that by doing research you could post the wrong name and adversely affect someone who was otherwise innocent.
I find it enlightening that the post was not read (which takes very little effort to complete), YET google was opened up and queries commenced.
Not only that, but you were able to successfully determine that this was the action that took place.
I do the same thing myself far too often - skim something quickly, pick a key word and then google it myself out of context. Wonder how many things I misinterpreted because of this behavior.
> I find it enlightening that the post was not read (which takes very little effort to complete), YET google was opened up and queries commenced.
This is exactly what terrifies me when the mob starts baying for personal information. I've seen it go wrong too many times now (personally I think HN should follow Reddit's example and add a rule about posting personal information)
