On: Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrill...

[rejectfinite]

He is a king amongst men.

Incredible service to humanity.

[defrost → rejectfinite]

Sure, ... unless the person behind the “Denis Petrov” nom de guerre is another Alexandra Elbakyan.

[rejectfinite → defrost]

Why is that bad? From searching, she is behind sci-hub?

[defrost → rejectfinite]

There's no suggestion that would be a bad thing.

Just highlighting the flaw in your assumption that the anonymous person behind this is male.

[xereeto → defrost]

The way you phrased it definitely made it sound like you were implying it was a bad thing lol

[defrost → xereeto]

That'd be the way that you read it, if they were another Alexandra Elbakyan (or Joanna Rutkowska, or Stephanie Wehner, or ... ) then they clearly wouldn't be a King among Men.

Just as I wrote.

[pimlottc → defrost]

The issue is more that your comment can be seen as a respond to the /last/ sentence of the original post.

[defrost → pimlottc]

Only to those unaware of who Alexandra Elbakyan is or to those that chose not to investigate.

For those aware the juxtaposition twixt { King of Men } | { Woman who created massive scientific paper archive } tends to dominate.

But sure, not everybody reads things the same way.

[rejectfinite → defrost]

No, it is due to the way you phrased the question.

[defrost → rejectfinite]

It was a statement, not a question.

That suggests the deeper issue might be language fluency, English can be difficult to parse.

[rejectfinite → defrost]

It reads to me same as xereeto said. That's why I asked. Maybe think about that? Do you have some difficulty in interactions?

[defrost → rejectfinite]

> Do you have some difficulty in interactions?

No.

I do have 40+ years of observing commenters on internet forums assuming unknowns are male by default.

Maybe think about that?

[vrong → defrost]

Well, one of those you mentioned would.

[nora-puchreiner → defrost]

Both names are unisex

[jimbobimbo → nora-puchreiner]

Assuming Russian looking spelling, Alexandra is a female name and Denis is a male name.

[pests → defrost]

Did Alexandra Elbayan do something wrong ? Why wouldn't you wouldn't to be compared to them?