"bit of a sensationalist" is reasonable feedback; no slack needed. After all, this is how they learn.

people learn when they’re given kind, direct, actionable feedback from people they trust - not when they’re called sensationalists by random critics on the internet.

what have you made lately?

>people learn when they’re given kind, direct, actionable feedback from people they trust - not when they’re called sensationalists by random critics on the internet.

So what are we supposed to do? Dox him, find who his friends are, and use them to backchannel feedback? I think the "sensationalist" critique is direct and actionable - just don't do it.

I think "this writing is sensationalist" is constructive, actionable feedback.

And I think expecting that all criticism must come from people the target of it knows and trusts is a bit much.

> what have you made lately?

Plenty of stuff. But that's irrelevant. People are free to give feedback regardless of what they've been working on.

It would probably be better for such learning to occur in a place that doesn't create immutable records of judgments from one's peers; i.e. Hacker News comments.

Their twitter says

> Joined November 2017

so likely a bit older :)

Ah, that's true. They even have HackerOne activity from 8 years ago: https://hackerone.com/daniel/hacktivity?type=user

So either they lied about their age then in order to join social media and they're some sort of child prodigy... or they're lying now.

that's a hackerone bug, that 8-year-old report is not mine :)

It's clearly a different username on the 8 year old report.

Or that hackerone account has been traded.

H1 activity at 8 is pretty crazy but yeah, I never put real information unless it's financial/stuff I care about

Benjamin Dover, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, born in 1999 ;)

It's not unfathomable for a precocious 8yr old to register for an account, with or without parental guidance.

No.