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Just for the record: I didn't play a "card", that was a genuine question.

I didn't want to escalate, I think the escalation was already done by the man who "jokingly" called his project the "Minority Report".

If you can't talk about pathological behavior with the appropriate words, it's getting difficult to discuss this. The commenter you booted out was showing very similar behavior btw.

Not every psychopath/sociopath (I know it's getting muddy there) is out to eat people, but they all fundamentally lack empathy and usually compensate with power, and sarcastic, deprecating snark is just that.

What happened here? There was a whole thread coming after that?!

The nonchalance of these people is what really terrifies me.

They just laugh any valid criticism off and start using the references "ironically" themselves.

I don't understand how they can do that; do they not have a moral compass? are they psychopaths?

Conclusion: Internet is not made of honey.

Somebody has told me, that this would be bad because "something" (I think entropy?). I didn't understand that.

Can somebody with sense please explain if this is a good or bad idea?

You sure have the answers, pal.

Is it concerning, that I see a question like that on Stack Overflow or am I too pessimistic?

"Justified" is the word you're looking for.

We want it to be justified, not honorable. Nobody gives two shits about honor as soon as it is about "them" (whoever fits that definition currently).

"100000+ happy users […] can't be wrong", right?!

Git is essentially a Merkle DAG, thus a single reference to the root object suffices.

Also collisions are only practical with large amounts of padding which would be visible. That's why nobody really cares too much about them for source control systems.

For science: it only states "I think this may be inappropriate content so I won't show it" which is a shame :)