On 5/13/2016 11:21 AM, Xinok wrote:
There are companies which specialize in doing background checks on potential hires and they'll dig up every little secret they can find about you online. While you may think an association with D isn't a big deal, some people out there can be extremely bigoted and will judge you based on that alone.
If some company won't hire you because you contributed code to D, I'd say you dodged a bullet working for such!
When I was young, I worried about what other people thought of me. When I was middle aged, I stopped caring what other people thought of me. When I was old, I realized nobody thought about me.
It goes both ways as well; if one deplorable individual happens to get a lot of public attention and he becomes associated with the D community (oh how the media loves to spin a story), it will reflect poorly on our community as a whole.
I know this happens in politics (queue Trump's problem with one of his superdelegates) but I'd hate to tell someone they have to hide their identity because they are unpopular.
So no, let's not start using our real names just because you fail to recognize some people.
If you feel strongly about it, then don't.
